Kate Chopin in Context New Approaches

by Ostman, Heather; O'Donoghue, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781137551795
• ISBN10: 1137551798
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-10
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

While Kate Chopin, famed writer of The Awakening, has received considerable scholarly attention over the years, very little scholarship has focused on her twenty-first century impact, particularly on the global level. Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches revisits familiar themes, establishes new themes, and brings theory to practice in classroom settings, where so many encounter Chopin as readers and as teachers. Notably, the collection includes essays from around the globe, written by scholars from North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, offering readers glimpses into the multi-national appreciation and versatility of the author's work. Other topics include technological applications to teaching Chopin, Gender Studies, historical and legal context, among many others. In turn, this much-needed collection reiterates and reinvigorates Kate Chopin's relevance and ultimately influence on the history of American writing.

Author Biography

Heather Ostman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Westchester Community College, SUNY, USA. She is the editor of Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century and the author of Writing Program Administration and the Community College.
 
Kate O'Donoghue earned her PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. She specializes in nineteenth-century American women's fiction, digital pedagogy, and composition and rhetoric.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Heather Ostman and Kate O'Donoghue
PART I: NEW CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES
1. Chopin's Enlightened Men; Bernard Koloski
2. Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism; Rafael Walker
3. "A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her": The Legal Climate at the Time of "Désirée's Baby"; Amy Branam Armiento
4. The Gothic in Kate Chopin; Aparecido Donizete Rossi
5. "Music Evoked Pictures in Her Mind": Sensory and Artistic Synaesthesia in Kate Chopin's The Awakening; Eulalia Piñero Gil
6. Maternity vs. Autonomy in Chopin's "Regret"; Heather Ostman
PART II: NEW PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES
7. The "I Hate Edna" Club; Emily Toth
8. Pioneering Chopin's Radical Feminism: Nineteenth-Century Patchwork in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgensons; Diana Epelbaum
9. "I'm So Happy; It Frightens Me": Female Genealogy in Kate Chopin's and Pauline Hopkins's Fiction; Corrie Catlett Merricks
10. A Continuum of Growth and Ambiguity: Teaching the New Woman - and Man - in the work of Hawthorne, Harper, Atherton, Chopin, and Dreiser; Patricia Sehulster
11. What Did She Die of? "The Story of an Hour" in the Middle East Classroom; Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
12. Teaching Chopin through Multimedia; Kate O'Donoghue