The Cambridge companion to Willa Cather / edited by Marilee Lindemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindemann, Marilee.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cather, Willa.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Women and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xx, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Willia Cather

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This Companion offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American novelist. The essays collected here cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her novels and short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship and the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume provides students and teachers with a fresh and thorough study of this enigmatic author.

Contents:

Part I Contexts and critical issues 17

1 Willa Cather as progressive: politics and the writer / Guy J. Reynolds 19

2 The Cather thesis: the American empire of migration / Joseph R. Urgo 35

3 Willa Cather's American modernism / Richard H. Millington 51

4 Willa Cather and the geography of Jewishness / Lisa Marcus 66

5 Willa Cather and sexuality / Jonathan Goldberg 86

6 Willa Cather and the performing arts / Janis P. Stout 101

7 Willa Cather and the comic sense of self / Susan J. Rosowski 116

8 Cather and the short story / Mark J. Madigan 131

9 Willa Cather in the country of the ill / Sharon O'Brien 146

Part II Studies of major works 157

10 Rereading My Antonia / Anne E. Goldman 159

11 Fictions of possession in The Professor's House / John N. Swift 175

12 Catholic expansionism and the politics of depression in Death Comes for the Archbishop / Leona Sevick 191

13 Willa Cather and "the old story": Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Ann Romines 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-227) and index.

ISBN:

052182110X

0521527937

OCLC:

55229108

Publisher Number:

9780521821100 (hbk.)

9780521527934 (pbk.)

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