{"product_id":"kate-chopin-and-catholicism-heather-ostman-9783030440213","title":"Kate Chopin and Catholicism","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Ostman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030440214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030440213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021","brand":"Heather Ostman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43978450895103,"sku":"9783030440213","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36e21ea2-dce4-42c7-8b46-d413813ad41c.jpg?v=1683241614","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kate-chopin-and-catholicism-heather-ostman-9783030440213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}