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Kate Chopin

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Scope: Kate Chopin was born in 1851 in St. Louis , Missouri. Her novels are about Louisianas Creoles, Acadians, and Blacks. She received critical acclaim for her feminist perspective in her novel The Awakening.

CIRCULATING  BOOKS

Books of Kate Chopins works are listed in our on-line catalog under, Chopin, Kate, or under individual titles, i.e. The Awakening.

Books written by and about Kate Chopin have the call number(s):
PS 1294.C63 C75
PS 266.L8

Some representative books from the circulating collection that is located upstairs in the library are:

Dyer, Joyce. The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings. New York: Twayne, 1993.

Petry, Alice Hall. Critical Essays on Kate Chopin. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF Z1231 .F4 G4 The American Novel 1789-1959

REF PR 821 .C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol.2

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.12 American Realists and Naturalists

REF PR 111.T45 1990b The Feminist Companion to Literature in English

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES

Yahoo! Authors
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors

Chopin Webpage
http://www.loyno.edu/~tlkinnon/Index.htm

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Updated 02/08/2007