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Kate Chopin. Main Page | 19th-C Literature | 19th-C Novelists | 19th-C Women | About LiteraryHistory.com Public domain photograph of Kate Chopin Literary criticism and analysis for the 19th-century American novelist and short-story writer Kate Chopin.

Kate Chopin

Academic web sites and peer-reviewed journal articles. Introduction & Biography The Kate Chopin International Society, Includes a biography, Chopin's themes, on The Awakening, on the short stories "The Storm"; "The Story of an Hour"; "Athénaïse"; "Désirée's Baby"; "A Respectable Woman"; "A Pair of Silk Stockings"; "Lilacs"; and "At the 'Cadian Ball. " "Kate Chopin. " "Kate Chopin: 'Désirée's Baby.'" "Kate Chopin.

" "Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening. " "The American Novel: 1890s-1920s Naturalism. " "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865-1895. " Scullion, Val. Literary Criticism Anderson, Maureen. Bender, Bert. Berkove, Lawrence L. Bucher, Christina. Burns, Karin Garlepp. The Short Story Library - American Literature. Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish dramatist, poet, and author wrote the darkly sardonic Faustian themed The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891); In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, ....

Oscar Wilde

"I hate them for it,"cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Ever the aesthete, Wilde himself was profoundly affected by beauty and lived and dressed flamboyantly compared to the typical Victorian styles and mores of the time. Adieu! After school Wilde settled in London and continued to write poetry; his first collection simply titled Poems was published in 1881. Biography written by C. The above biography is copyrighted. John Updike. A selective list of online literary criticism and analysis for the 20th-century American novelist, short story writer, poet, reviewer, and essayist John Updike, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources main page | 20th-century writers | 20th-century fiction | mid-century american fiction | about literaryhistory.com introduction & biography "John Updike," ed.

John Updike

George J. Searles. Pritchard, William H. "Interviews. " Wolcott, James. "The Early Days of John Updike '54. " Boswell, Marshall. Literary criticism: "A&P" Brauner, David. Porter, M. Saldivar, Toni. Wells, Walter. The Rabbit novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest "Interview with John Updike. " Story Reviews, Freelance Editing, and Writing Help - Storybites.com. The short review: February 2012. Literature (in English) Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch) Literary Resources on the Net These pages are maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers — Newark.

Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)

Comments and corrections are welcome. Updated 7 January 2006. Search for a (single) word: Or choose one of the following categories: General Sources These sources are too important to be buried in my miscellaneous pages, and too miscellaneous to be put anywhere else. The Voice of the Shuttle Alan Liu's superb collection of electronic resources for the humanities.

Calls for Papers A current list from the cfp@english.upenn.edu mailing list. About These Pages This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics — I've excluded most poetry journals, for instance. This page is maintained by Jack Lynch. Twaynes Authors Online - Basic Search.