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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindemann, Marilee, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cather, Willa.

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

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her 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 as well as the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author of My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Contents:

I: Contexts and critical issues

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

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

Willa Cather's American modernism / Richard H. Millington

Willa Cather and the geography of Jewishness / Lisa Marcus

Willa Cather and sexuality / Jonathan Goldberg

Willa Cather and the performing arts / Janis P. Stout

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

Cather and the short story / Mark J. Madigan

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

II: Studies of major works

Rereading My Ántonia / Anne E. Goldman

Fictions of possession in The professor's house / John N. Swift

Catholic expansionism and the politics of depression in Death comes for the archbishop / Leona Sevick

Willa Cather and "the old story" : Sapphira and the slave girl / Ann Romines.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81694-2

1-139-00086-1