Kate Chopin in Context

1. Introduction: Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches
Heather Ostman, Kate O’Donoghue

Part I. New Contextual Approaches

2. Chopin’s Enlightened Men
Bernard Koloski

3. Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism
Rafael Walker

4. “A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her”: The Legal Climate at the Time of “Désirée’s Baby”
Amy Branam Armiento

5. The Gothic in Kate Chopin
Aparecido Donizete Rossi

6. The Pleasures of Music: Kate Chopin’s Artistic and Sensorial Synesthesia
Eulalia Piñero Gil

7. Maternity vs. Autonomy in Chopin’s “Regret”
Heather Ostman

Part II. New Pedagogical Approaches

8. The “I Hate Edna Club”
Emily Toth

9. Pioneering Kate Chopin’s Feminism: Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons as Patchwork Precursor to The Awakening
Diana Epelbaum

10. “I’m So Happy; It Frightens Me”: Female Genealogy in the Fiction of Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins
Correna Catlett Merricks

11. American Refusals: A Continuum of “I Prefer Not Tos” as Articulated in the Work of Chopin, Hawthorne, Harper, Atherton, and Dreiser
Patricia J. Sehulster

12. What Did She Die of? “The Story of an Hour” in the Middle East Classroom
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Geetha Rajeswar

13. Teaching Kate Chopin Using Multimedia
Kate O’Donoghue

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History