Willa Cather and material culture : real-world writing, writing the real world / edited by Janis P. Stout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stout, Janis P.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation.

Cather, Willa.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Knowledge--Material culture.

Literature publishing--United States.

Literature publishing.

Material culture in literature.

Reality in literature.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather's work and Cather scholarship. Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times. The contributors explore b

Contents:

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: For Use, for Pleasure, for Status: The Object World of Willa Cather; 1. Willa Cather: A Life with Quilts; 2. To Entertain, To Educate, To Elevate: Cather and the Commodification of Manners at the Home Monthly; 3. "That Kitchen with the Shining Windows": Willa Cather's "Neighbour Rosicky" and the Woman's Home Companion; Appendix: Selected Thematic Concordance to"Neighbour Rosicky"; 4. Taking Liberties: Willa Cather and the 1934 Film Adaptation of A Lost Lady

5. Object Lessons: Nature Education, Museum Science, and Ethnographic Tourism in The Professor's House6. "An Orgy of Acquisition": The Female Consumer, Infidelity, and Commodity Culture in A Lost Lady and The Professor's House; 7. "Fragments of Their Desire": Willa Cather and the Alternative Aesthetic Tradition of Native American Women; 8. Material Objects as Sites of Cultural Mediation in Death Comes for the Archbishop; 9. Gloves Full of Gold: Violations of the Gift Cycle in My Mortal Enemy; 1 0. Words To Do with Things: Reading about Willa Cather and Material Culture; Bibliography

ContributorsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8232-1

OCLC:

427565654