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1、THECAMBRIDGECOMPANIONTOKATECHOPINAlthoughsheenjoyedonlymodestsuccessduringherlifetime,KateChopinisnowrecognisedasauniquevoiceinAmericanliterature.Herseminalnovel,TheAwakening,publishedin1899,explorednewandstartlingterritoryandstunnedreaderswithitsfrankdepictionofthelimitsofma
2、rriageandmotherhood.Chopin’saesthetictastesandculturalinfluencesweredrawnfromboththeEuropeanandAmericantraditions,andhermanipulationofher‘foreignness’contributedtothecompositionofacomplexvoicethatwasstrikinglydifferenttothatofhercontemporaries.TheessaysinthisCompaniontreatawi
3、derangeofChopin’sstoriesandnovels,drawingherrelationshipwithotherwriters,genresandliterarydevelopments,andpaycloseattentiontothetransatlanticdimensionofherwork.TheresultisacollectionthatbringsafreshperspectivetoChopin’swriting,onethatwillappealtoresearchersandstudentsofAmeric
4、an,nineteenth-centuryandfeministliterature.THECAMBRIDGECOMPANIONTOKATECHOPINEDITEDBYJANETBEERCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo,DelhiCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesof
5、AmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521709828©CambridgeUniversityPress2008Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypa
6、rtmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublished2008PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,CambridgeAcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibraryISBN978-0-521-88344-3hardbackISBN978-0-521-70982-8paperbackCambridgeU
7、niversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhisbook,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate.CONTENTSNotesoncontributorspageviiKateChopinchronologyxiIntroduc
8、tionJANETBEER11Whatwedoanddon’tknowaboutKateChopin’slifeEMILYTOTH132
