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Inspiration and Transcendence in the Fiction of Kate Chopin: Echoes of Nineteenth Century German Women and Women Writers marks the first comprehensive study which explicitly links Kate Chopin’s work to nineteenth-century German women writers Fanny Lewald, Ida Hahn-Hahn, Malwida von Meysenburg and German women, Antoinette Fehringer and Eleonore Grunow, who served as role models for her fiction. This book (re)-establishes connections to Chopin’s contemporaries Nietzsche, Hegel, and Schopenhauer and introduces her indebtedness to the writers of the German Romantic period, Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher and the politician Carl Schurz. The modernity of her fiction and the radical-progressive tenets established through her transatlantic influences place Kate Chopin’s work into the context of major historical, socio-political and philosophical movements of nineteenth-century Europe.

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Author:   Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz ,  Lynne Tatlock
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781666946314

ISBN 10:   1666946311
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   15 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Lynne Tatlock Preface Chapter 1: Inspired by a Culture and its Women: Kate Chopin’s German Influences Chapter 2: Paving the Way: The Influence of German Role Models on Kate Chopin’s Early Short Stories Chapter 3: The Legacy of Fanny Lewald: Impetus and Influences on the Literary Work of Kate Chopin Chapter 4: Moral Awareness and Social Reforms: Aspects of Fanny Lewald’s Socio-Political Treatises in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories Chapter 5: Moving Towards Moral Liberation: Fanny Lewald’s Clementine and the Rebellion of Kate Chopin’s Heroines Chapter 6: Recapturing the Orient: Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Countess Faustina, and the Mystique of a New Feminine Self in Kate Chopin’s “An Egyptian Cigarette” Chapter 7: “Moving from the Inside Out”: Malwida von Meysenburg and Kate Chopin’s Portrayal of a New Feminine Identity in The Awakening Conclusion Bibliography About the Author

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Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz has taught at Ball State University in Indiana and the University of Bremen in Germany.

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