HUM 2212: British and American Literature I Corseting HUM 2212: British and American Literature I Fall 2012 Dr. Perdigao November 5-7, 2012

http://wp.stockton.edu/camphausenat/author-biography/ http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/new/women/gibsongirl.html

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) Irish immigrant family St. Louis, Missouri Married at 19 Widowed at 33, with 6 children “Local color,” regional fiction French literature as influence Cultural influences in New Orleans New southern landscape, struggles with “outdated social ideology” (551)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) The Awakening (1899) influenced by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) “sensual and sexual coming to consciousness of a young woman” (551) Edna Pontellier not a “new woman” “demanding social, economic, and political equality”; instead she is a “sensualist” (551) Critics of the story; interest and resuscitation in the 1970s

Secrets and Lies “Désirée’s Baby” Published in January 4, 1893 edition of Vogue as “The Father of Désirée’s Baby” Later included in Bayou Folk (1894) Madame Valmondé L’Albri 4 weeks Big stone pillar Believed to be left behind by “Texans” Corbeille Armand Aubigny Quadroon/mulatto (553) Pyre Secrets/revelations Letter writing

Freedom (George Michael style) “The Story of an Hour” Published in April 19, 1894 in Vogue as “The Dream of an Hour” and later in January 5, 1895 St. Louis Life Mrs. Mallard Josephine, sister Richards Railroad disaster Brently Mallard List Louise at story’s end, with sister’s calls Changes “What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name” (556) “free, free, free!” (556) Public/private selves Open window