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by Josnel A. Garcia Rodriguez
Prof. Emily Almansa
INGL3104-103
31 October 2019
According to Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature it is a "Modern school of literary criticism that treats the work of literature as a representation of historical forces. The new historicist takes the social, cultural, and historical implications of the text and extends the analysis to the economic and the political."
"New historicism is chiefly an American development in the study of early modern literature, which came to prominence in the early 1980s following the publication of Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning
(1980)" (Richter, 238)
(Mambrol)
“Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.”
-Stephen Greenblatt
(1850-1904)
Some of Chopin's most recognized work include:
"The Awakening"
"Désirée's Baby"
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
“A Respectable Woman”
"Considered one of the foremost Southern regionalist writers, Kate Chopin's fiction details the social and sexual subtleties of the Cajun and Creole culture in which she lived during her childhood and marriage" (Brantley)
"She had an affair with a married man... This experience and others fueled her later writing, which often involved illicit passions in the heat-sodden world of the swamps." (Brantley)
Written in 1898 and published in 1969. "It is a vignette exploring female desires that cannot be fulfilled in marriage." (Brantley)
"For in Assumption he had kissed her and kissed and kissed her; until his senses would well nigh fail, and to save her he would resort to a desperate flight." (Chopin, 3)
"So the storm passed and everyone was happy" (Chopin, 4)
"Unlike much other 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, the adulterous woman is not punished, but is instead, now more satisfied in her marriage." (Brantley)
Chopin writes the short story but does not publish it because "The patriarchal publishing world was simply not ready for such an honest exploration of female independence, a frank cataloguing of a woman's desires and her search for fulfillment outside marriage." (Brantley)
“Let women be what God intended, a helpmate for a man – but with totally different duties and vocations” (Queen Victoria)
" According to the stereotypical gender roles, man was supposed to be the breadwinner while woman was to be the homemaker...Victorian gender ideology justified itself claiming that women were destined to be mothers and wives and no more. It was God’s will, which was incontestable". (Yildirimir, 46)
Chopin, Kate. “The Storm”. 1898. PDF
file from Moodle. https://bit.ly/2Pj4Ycq
Hardy, Edward John. “Chapter IV.
Woman's Work--To Please.” Manners Makyth Man, New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1888, p. 42.
Mambrol, Nasrullah. “Stephen
Greenblatt and New Historicism.” Literary Theory and Criticism, 25 Mar. 2019, https://bit.ly/363swYR
Michaels, Walter Benn. "The victims of new
historicism." Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, 1993, p. 111+. Literature Resource Center, https://bit.ly/2qzLC8y.
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Encyclopedia of Literature, Merriam-Webster, 1995. Literature Criticism Online, https://bit.ly/2N7hmcZ.
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Characters and Revisionist Mythmaking in the Work of Kate Chopin." Short Story Criticism, edited by Joseph Palmisano, vol. 68, Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center, https://bit.ly/2Ndzgun. Originally published in The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 14-23.
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Chopin’s Short Stories, The Historical Context of Kate Chopin’s Short Stories". GradeSaver, 21 February 2010 Web.