{"product_id":"kate-chopin-and-catholicism-paperback-1","title":"Kate Chopin and Catholicism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Ostman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovels and numerous short stories, \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin and Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estruggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauthenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earticulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enatural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heather Ostman's \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin and Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e is meaty, interesting, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprovocative. It may change the way we all read this marvel of a writer.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Linda Wagner-Martin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and author of \u003ci\u003eHemingway's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWars: The Public and Private Battles\u003c\/i\u003e (2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Heather Ostman's \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin and Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e heralds an innovative\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emethodology with rich possibilities for studies of Kate Chopin and American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erealism. As Chopin became immersed in the studies of Darwin, she drew away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom practicing Catholicism. Ostman demonstrates how Chopin used Catholicism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a device to examine social issues and critique the schism between physical and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecorporeal pleasure. Ostman exemplifies how Chopin leveraged Catholicism to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earrive at a revolutionary and unorthodox definition of mysticism and spirituality.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Kate O'Donoghue, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk County\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunity College, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovels and numerous short stories, \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin and Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estruggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauthenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earticulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enatural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Ostman is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at SUNY Westchester Community College. She is President of the Kate Chopin International Society, and her books include \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin in Context: New Critical \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eKate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Fiction of Junot \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDíaz: Reframing the Lens\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eWriting Program Administration and the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommunity College\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 229\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703639568691,"sku":"9783030440244","price":168.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OUVUemFBdHh5Uzh0aDdCQ0RGNE5uQT09_1d695afc-2e22-4951-b575-cf30a59069ae.webp?v=1763334092","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/kate-chopin-and-catholicism-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}