Further Reading
- Beer, Janet. "‘Dah you Is, Settin' Down, Lookin' Jis' Like W'ite Folks!’: Ethnicity Enacted in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction." In Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 24-39. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997. (Attempts to demonstrate that “Chopin's Louisiana is a post-colonial rather than an American post-bellum society.”)
- Black, Martha Fodaski. "The Quintessence of Chopinism." In Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou, edited by Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis, pp. 95-113. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. (Black discusses political and cultural influences on Chopin's feminism in her writing.)
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Kate Chopin. New York: Chelsea House, 1987, 138 p. (Reprints seminal writings on Chopin's works from early commentary to more recent critical views.)
- Boren, Lynda S. and Sara deSaussure Davis, eds. Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992, 248 p. (Collection of essays on Chopin's novels and short stories.)
- Branscomb, Jack. "Chopin's ‘Ripe Figs.’" The Explicator 52, no. 3 (spring 1994): 165-66. (Discusses the importance of time in “Ripe Figs.”)
- Ewell, Barbara C. "Kate Chopin and the Dream of Female Selfhood." In Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou, edited by Lynda S. Boren and Sara deSaussure Davis, pp. 157-65. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. (Ewell examines the notion of American individualism in Chopin's works.)
- Foster, Derek W. and Kris LeJeune. "‘Stand by Your Man …’: Desirée Valmonde and Feminist Standpoint Theory in Kate Chopin's ‘Desirée's Baby’." Southern Studies VIII, nos. 1-2 (winter-spring 1997): 91-7. (Contends that the character of Desirée in “Desirée's Baby” “is an example of someone who practices standpoint theory.”)
- Green, Suzanne Disheroon, and Caudle, David J., eds. Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 274 p. (Comprehensive survey of criticism on Chopin published between 1976 and 1998, including annotated entries for books, essays, dissertations, biographical studies, and bibliographical works.)
- Jones, Suzanne W. "Place, Perception and Identity in The Awakening." Southern Quarterly 25, no. 2 (winter 1987): 108-19. (Views the two locales in which The Awakening is set, New Orleans and Grand Isle, as enabling “Chopin to expose not only the confusion that arises when a woman experiences a new place, but also the way in which a social setting controls thought and determines identity.”)
- Koloski, Bernard. Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996, 165 p. (Surveys Chopin's short stories and reprints reviews and essays on Chopin's life and work as a short story writer.)
- Llewellyn, Dara. "Reader Activation of Boundaries in Kate Chopin's ‘Beyond the Bayou’." Studies in Short Fiction 33, no. 2 (spring 1996): 225-62. (Analyzes various boundaries in “Beyond the Bayou.”)
- Morgan-Proux, Catherine. "Athena of Goose? Kate Chopin's Ironical Treatment of Motherhood in ‘Athénaïse’." Southern Studies 4, no. 4 (winter 1993): 625-40. (Argues that Chopin's apparent glorification of childbirth and motherhood in the story “Athénaïse” is ironic.)
- Peel, Ellen. "Semiotic Subversion in ‘Désirée's Baby’." American Literature 62, no. 2 (June 1990): 223-37. (Provides a semiotic and political interpretation of “Désirée's Baby.”)
- Petry, Alice Hall, ed. Critical Essays on Kate Chopin. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996, 257 p. (Compilation of critical essays.)
- Schweitzer, Ivy. "Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." In Gendered Agents: Women and Institutional Knowledge, edited by Silvestra Mariniello and Paul Bové, pp. 161-91. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. (Contrasts the protagonists of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter with Chopin's The Awakening based on the fact that Edna Pontellier had the experience of motherhood while Hester Prynne did not.)
- Seay, Geraldine H. "Kate Chopin's Source for ‘At the 'Cadian Ball’." Southern Studies VIII, nos. 1-2 (winter-spring 1997): 37-42. (Identifies several sources for “At the 'Cadian Ball.”)
- Steiling, David. "Multi-Cultural Aesthetic in Kate Chopin's ‘A Gentleman of Bayou Teche’." The Mississippi Quarterly 47, no. 2 (spring 1994): 197-101. (Discusses Chopin's use of irony to address regional and ethnic stereotypes in “A Gentleman of Bayou Teche.”)
- Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990, 528 p. (Biography that questions long-held views on Chopin's life and writing; includes appendices, photographs, and a select bibliography.)
- Wershoven, C. J. "The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Studies in Arrested Development." American Literary Realism 19, no. 3 (spring 1987): 27-41. (Contends that Chopin's The Awakening and Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, while evidencing numerous dissimilarities, are in fact “related in patterns of conflict, grouping of characters, development of protagonists and, more subtly, in a cluster of images that reflect desperate and dangerous polarities.”)
- Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." In The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era, edited by Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek, and Carol J. Singley, pp. 181-97. Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1997. (Considers elements of modernist and minimalist techniques in The Awakening and “the relationship of between these elements and Edna Pontellier's personal tragedy.”)
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