At Fault

Kate Chopin 지음

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Written by Timothy Sexton, DaNaejah Dupuy

At Fault is Kate Chopin’s first novel which was written between July 1889 and April 1890. Upon completion, she submitted it to Bedford’s Monthly; a literary journal that made room for one novel in each issue. Upon rejection, Chopin decided to publish the novel herself, recognizing it as a breakthrough work in which she had discovered her voice as a regional writer.

Chopin was found to be at fault on several literary levels by critics who received one of the 250 copies she distributed to editors and libraries. While modern day critics can see how much Chopin improved in terms of plotting and dialogue, the primary criticism of the day was toward the subject matter of failing marriages and alcoholism andoddlyChopin’s insistence upon dealing with this subject matter in a rea.....

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저자(글) Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (/opæn/,[1][2] also US: /opæn, opn/;[3] born Katherine OFlaherty; February 8, 1851 August 22, 1904)[4] was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars[5] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and is one of the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel The Awakening.

Of maternal French and paternal Irish descent, Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She married and moved with her husband to New Orleans. They later lived in the country in Cloutierville, Louisiana. From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in such national magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youths Companion. Her stories aroused controversy because of her subjects and her approach; they were c.....