Research
Guide-Kate Chopin’s STORY OF AN HOUR. See Videos “The Joy that Kills” VH 1668 and “Story of an
Hour” VH 667 both at ETC and CC
Library Catalog via http://albert.rit.edu/. Search by
keywords and subject. Chopin, Kate. For a historical and cultural overview,
search Women’s Rights-United States or Feminism. Theme has to do with marriage, freedom,
marital discontent. Her contemporaries were Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony,
and Lucy Stone.
Call numbers to browse the
shelves for resources:
E American History-REF and 4th floors
F366-380 Louisiana History-4th floor
HQ 1400 Women’s History-REF and 4th floor
PS 1294.C63 Kate Chopin-3rd floor
Reference Sources. Check bibliographies
at the back of books to find related articles. 1st floor near the Reference
Desk area. The following
materials provide excerpts from scholarly journals, books, essays or other
critical sources.
"The Story of an Hour" found from the database Literary Inde
Short Story Criticism Ref PN3373 .S386 volume(s) 8:72-3, 79-80, 84, 87,
99, 102, 108
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Ref PN771.G27 volume(s)
14:60, 70
Reference Guide
to Short Fiction Ref PN3373 .R36 1994
Citation from Short Story Criticism in MLA format
Reference Citations - Provides citations to critical
essays, books or articles grouped alphabetically by author.
Short Story Index Ref PN3373.C665
Twentieth
Century Short Story Explication Ref PN3373 .W33
Reference Biographies
American
Writers: a Collection of Literary Biographies [Ref PS129.A55] General overview of lives, careers,
and works of major American writers, discussing major themes and characters.
American Women
Writers: a Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present [Ref PS147.A4]
Critical essays about American women writers who lived over the past three
centuries.
Short Story Writers [Ref PN3373 .S398 1997 v.1]
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States [Ref
PS147.094]
Short biographical sketch of Chopin tracing the publishing history and social
reception of her writings.
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture [
Ref F209 .E53]
Examines the historical and contemporary
worlds of the American South. Contains chapters on the development of arts,
sciences and politics. Of particular interest are the chapters on "History
and Manners" and on "Women's Life."
References-Women's History
Handbook of American
Women's History [ Ref
HQ1418 .H36]
See definitions of "Southern Lady," "Cult of True
Womanhood," "Women's Work - Nineteenth Century,"
"Industrial Revolution," Textile Industries - Northern and
Southern" to gather social and cultural information about women in the
19th century
Books-Biographies
Kate Chopin. A Critical Biography PS1294.C63S4 3rd
floor
Unveiling Kate Chopin PS1294.C63 T684 1999 3rd
floor
Also available via netLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=25871
Degas in New Orleans : Encounters in
the Creole world of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable ND553.D3 B46 1997 3rd
floor
Books- Criticism and Interpretation
Kate Chopin PS1294.C63K38 1987
Kate Chopin PS1294.C63 S55 1985
FULL-TEXT DATABASES –Get full-text articles from the following
databases. Use both keyword and subject searches. You can email the articles to
yourself. http://wally.rit.edu/electronic/electronic.html
ABI
Academic Search Elite-MasterFileIndex
Literary Index
OMNI (click on the NEW button –the old one doesn’t work). Click on Humanities FullText
Citation Databases - These databases give you citations
(journal title, article title, author, date, volume, page number) and look for
the journal title in Einstein to see where it is located. It might be available
online via a database, in print on the Current Magazine Shelves or in bound
periodical format (2nd floor)
or on microfilm (2nd floor).
http://wally.rit.edu/electronic/electronic.html
MLA International
Bibliography via FirstSearch
Essay General Literature
Arts and Humanities
Websites
Documenting the American South: Kate Chopin
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/chopinawake/about.html
Brief essay about Kate Chopin including a digitized library of major works in
Southern literature.
English and Feminist Resources
http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/nichols.html
French Creoles in
Louisiana: An American Tale, by Harriet J. Bauman.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/2/92.02.02.x.html
Information
on the Creole society depicted in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Kate
Chopin-American Realist Period
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/realist.html
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/realist2.html
Kate Chopin
Resources
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Chopin.html
http://www.loyno.edu/~tlkinnon/Index.htm
Kate Chopin: A
Re-Awakening.
http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/resources.html
http://www.lpb.org/programs/enhanced_kc/index.html
Online and
print materials relating to Kate Chopin, as well as a list of sources used PBS
production.
Online Literary
Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Index of
literary criticism on the web from the Internet Public Library.
Perspectives in American
Literature: a Research and Reference Guide: Kate Chopin.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/chopin.html
Lists the
primary works of Chopin, bibliography of selected criticism, and summary of The
Awakening.
Southern
Literature: Women Writers.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/southwomen.htm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/chopin.htm
Story
of an Hour Study Text
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/storyofhour.html
Women’s History
http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/votes.html
Women’s Movement
http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/votes.html
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/women/a&l2.html
American Cultural History –the 20th Century
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html
Authors
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/authors.html
http://kingwoodcollegelibrary.com/research.htm
