TY - BOOK AU - Ostman,Heather ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Kate Chopin and the City: The New Orleans Stories T2 - American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, SN - 9783031443008 AV - PN843-846 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - America KW - Literatures KW - Literature, Modern KW - 19th century KW - Cities and towns KW - History KW - North American Literature KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature KW - Urban History N1 - Introduction -- 1 Post-Civil War Stories -- 2 Art, Music, and Language -- 3 Postbellum Transitions -- 4 The “Protomodern” City -- 5 New Orleans and Chopin’s Novels -- Conclusion N2 - This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the author’s “city” stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories’ protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44300-8 ER -