Confidences: Kate Chopin's Critical Essays
Keywords:
Kate Chopin, Literary criticism, Cultural criticism, FeminismAbstract
Between 1894 and 1899 Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904), one of the highlights of American Realism and Feminism, published seven critical essays in newspapers and journals. To this number, it might be counted the sketch “Confidences” and the two first entrances of Impressions, her second diary, totalizing nine texts. These texts unveil a refined critical spirit, an outspoken and edge-cutting style in writing, sometimes sarcastically merciless, and an eager reader, all of them aspects that would be put into practice by the Feminist criticism expressed in the author’s novels and short stories. Introduce and briefly discuss these essays are the main purposes of this paper. Keywords: Kate Chopin. Literary and cultural criticism. Feminism.
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CHOPIN, Kate. As You Like It. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006a, p. 706 – 720 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. Confidences. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006b, p. 700 – 702 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. ―Crumbling Idols‖ by Hamlin Garland. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006c, p. 693 – 694 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. Emile Zola‘s ―Lourdes‖. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006d, p. 697 – 699 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. Impressions. 1894. In: SEYERSTED, Per; TOTH, Emily (ed.). A Kate Chopin Miscellany. Oslo; Natchitoches: Universitetsforlaget; Northwestern State University Press, 1979a, p. 89 – 99.
_____. In the Confidence of a Story-Writer. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006e, p. 703 – 705 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. On Certain Brisk, Bright Days. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge (LA): Louisiana State University Press, 2006f, p. 721 – 723 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. The Real Edwin Booth. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006g, p. 695 – 696 (Southern Literary Studies).
_____. Statement on The Awakening. In: SEYERSTED, Per; TOTH, Emily (ed.). A Kate Chopin Miscellany. Oslo; Natchitoches: Universitetsforlaget; Northwestern State University Press, 1979b, p. 137.
_____. The Western Association of Writers. In: SEYERSTED, Per (ed.). The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006h, p. 691 – 692 (Southern Literary Studies).
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FROM THE CHICAGO TIMES-HERALD (JUNE 1, 1899). In: CHOPIN, Kate. The Awakening. Edited by Margo Culley. 2. ed. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, p. 166 (A Norton Critical Edition).
FROM THE PITTSBURGH LEADER (JULY 8, 1899). In: CHOPIN, Kate. The Awakening. Edited by Margo Culley. 2. ed. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, p. 170 – 172 (A Norton Critical Edition).
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