{"product_id":"9783030440213","title":"Kate Chopin and Catholicism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKate Chopin and Catholicism\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eOstman, Heather\u003c\/h2\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\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-05-14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030440213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-44022-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 229\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47529631940748,"sku":"9783030440213","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030440213.jpg?v=1776043968","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030440213","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}