Kate Chopin in Context

Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State University, USA Diana Epelbaum, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Bernard Koloski, Independent Scholar, USA Correna Catlett Merricks, Mercer University, USA Eulalia Piñero Gil, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Independent Scholar, USA Geetha Rajeswar, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Aparecido Donizete Rossi, São Paulo State University, Brazil Patricia Sehulster, Westchester Community College, SUNY, USA Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, USA Rafael Walker, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"In this comprehensive collection, Ostman and O'Donoghue have done a heroic job in selecting essays that widen the lens beyond the customary examination of Chopin's magnum opus, The Awakening. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." (D. D. Knight, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

• 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 "Desiree'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 Pinero 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