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The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's "At Fault"

The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's "At Fault"

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The New View from Cane River
features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel,
At Fault.
While much critical work on the author prioritizes her famous, groundbreaking second book,
The Awakening,
its 1890 predecessor remains a fascinating text that presents a complicated moral universe, including a plot that involves divorce, alcoholism, and murder set in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Edited by Chopin scholar Heather Ostman, the essays in
provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era and its effects on race, gender, and economics in Louisiana. Original perspectives introduced by the contributors include discussions of Chopin’s treatment of privilege, sexology, and Unitarianism, as well as what
At Fault
reveals about the early stages of literary modernism and the reading audiences of late nineteenth-century America.
This overdue reconsideration of an overlooked novel gives enthusiastic readers, students, and instructors an opportunity for new encounters with a cherished American author.
The New View from Cane River
features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel,
At Fault.
While much critical work on the author prioritizes her famous, groundbreaking second book,
The Awakening,
its 1890 predecessor remains a fascinating text that presents a complicated moral universe, including a plot that involves divorce, alcoholism, and murder set in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Edited by Chopin scholar Heather Ostman, the essays in
provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era and its effects on race, gender, and economics in Louisiana. Original perspectives introduced by the contributors include discussions of Chopin’s treatment of privilege, sexology, and Unitarianism, as well as what
At Fault
reveals about the early stages of literary modernism and the reading audiences of late nineteenth-century America.
This overdue reconsideration of an overlooked novel gives enthusiastic readers, students, and instructors an opportunity for new encounters with a cherished American author.

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