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

5. 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New southern landscape, struggles with “outdated social ideology” (551)

6. Kate Chopin ( )
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

7. 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

8. 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
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