A selective bibliography of 28 active links for Kate Chopin, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Beilke, Debra. On Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing, Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 2000/2001. On Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, and others (removed)
Bucher, Christina. "Perversely Reading Kate Chopin's 'Fedora'", Mississippi Quarterly, Summer 2003 (removed)
Bunch, Dianne. (removed) "Dangerous spending habits: The epistemology of Edna Pontellier's extravagant expenditures in The Awakening," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002
Byrd, Lynda J. "Maternal Influence and Children in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction." Womenwriters.net
Ewell, Barbara C. "Changing Places: Women and the Old South; or, What Happens When Local Color Becomes Regionalism." An essay on "how stories create places and then how the Old South served as an 'other' place for the United States." From a Case Study program at Georgetown Univ.
Goddard, Paula. "Mrs. Chopin was at least a decade ahead of her time: The Place of The Awakening in the American Canon," excerpt from a dissertation
Griggers, Cody "Next Stop-- Paradise: An analysis of setting in The Awakening." Womenwriters.net
Harmon, Charles. "'Abysses of solitude': Acting naturally in Vogue and The Awakening." Harmon contends that "By juxtaposing The Awakening to Vogue, [contemporary magazine] it is possible to demonstrate that American culture during Chopin's era communicated a mixed yet finally overwhelmingly violent message to its women." College Literature, Fall 1998
Holtman, Janet. "Failing Fictions: The Conflicting and Shifting Social Emphases of Kate Chopin's 'Local Color'" Stories, Southern Quarterly, Winter 2004
Klein, Sarah. "Kate Chopin's Ecofeminism: A Dialogue Between The Awakening & Contemporary Women." Womenwriters.net
Klein, Sarah. "Writing the 'Solitary Soul': Anticipations of Modernism and Negotiations of Gender in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Womenwriters.net
Li-Dai, Lu. "The Awakened One," a Buddhist reading of The Awakening. Womenwriters.net
Llewellyn, Dara. "20th century AD." Llewellyn contends that the concept of boundary can shed light on 'Beyond the Bayou'. The story "is about boundaries of the usual sort (physical, temporal, psychological) while it foregrounds the boundary conditions of the reader's experience." Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1996
MacDonald, Erin E. "'Necessarily Vague': Kate Chopin's Gender-Awakening." Womenwriters.net
Mahin, Michael James. "The Awakening and the Yellow Wallpaper: An intertextual Comparison of the Conventional Connotations of Marriage and Propriety." Womenwriters.net
McManus, Barbara F. An excerpt from McManus's, Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics, and links to other feminist criticism of literature
Pontuale, Francesco. The Awakening: Struggles toward l'ecriture feminine," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1996/97 (removed)
Reeves, W.J. A Rush Limbaugh-type diatribe against the teaching of Kate Chopin, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe and others "Will zealots spell the doom of great literature? - the toll of political correctness," USA Today, Sept, 1996
Rich, Charlotte. "Reconsidering The Awakening : The literary sisterhood of Kate Chopin and George Egerton," Southern Quarterly, Spring 2003
Ryan, Steven T. "Depression and Chopin's The Awakening," Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 1998 (removed)
Scullion, Val. An introduction to Kate Chopin from the Literary Encyclopedia.
Smith-Riser, Emily. "Kate Chopin's 'Lilacs' and 'Two Portraits': Examples of Catholic Sensibility or Modernism?" Womenwriters.net
Simons, Karen. "Kate Chopin on the nature of things." Simons contends that "the focus on gender/self limits the scope of Chopin's vision in The Awakening...The Awakening tells the story of a woman who comes to understand her sexuality and its function in the larger scheme of things, a scheme which might best be understood as Lucretian." Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 1998 (removed)
Sprinkle, Russ. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: a Critical Reception." Womenwriters.net
Thomas, Heather Kirk "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Screenplay as Interpretation." Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1994
Treu, Robert "Surviving Edna: A reading of the ending of The Awakening," College Literature, Spring 2000
Wells, Kim. "Magic Realism and the Writings of Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather." Womenwriters.net
On the Cane River and the town of Natchitoches, from the Cane River Heritage web site On Kate Chopin's home in Natchitoches, the largest town in the Cane River region of Louisiana
A web site from Public Broadcasting Service on Kate Chopin includes an overview of her career, interviews with experts, and links to e-texts of her works.
A brief introduction to Kate Chopin from publisher Heath.
A primary and secondary bibliography and some discussion questions for Kate Chopin, from professor Paul P. Reuben.
"A Guide to Research: Kate Chopin." A bibligraphic guide to major works by and about Kate Chopin. By Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 1999. Womenwriters.net
A secondary bibliography for Kate Chopin by Gonzoga Univ. professor Donna Campbell with links to available e-texts of her work.
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