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1 online resource. |
| Series |
Cather Studies |
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Cather studies.
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| Summary |
"Volume of essays exploring how nineteenth-century culture shaped Willa Cather's childhood, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to the deeply held values present in her fiction"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Contexts; 1. Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality; 2. Cather's Readers, Traditionalism, and Modern America; 3. Time Out of Place: Modernity and the Rise of Environmentalism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!; 4. Contamination, Modernity, Health, and Art in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather; 6. Daughter of a War Lost, Won, and Evaded: Cather and the Ambiguities of the Civil War; 7. A [Slave] Girl's Life in Virginia before the War:Willa Cather and Antebellum Nostalgia |
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Part 2. Precursors and Influences8. Cather's Jewett: Relationship, Influence,and Representation; 9. Willa Cather and the Example of Henry James; 10. Kindred Spirits: Willa Cather and Henry James; 11. The Rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's Modernism and the Howellsian Pretext; 12. Echoes of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Couragein Willa Cather's One of Ours; 13. Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virginians: Literary Prototypes for My Mortal Enemy; 14. "One Knows It Too Well to Know It Well": Willa Cather, A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad |
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15. Following the Lieder: Cather, Schubert, and Lucy Gayheart16. Pompeii and the House of the Tragic Poet in A Lost Lady; 17. Making It New: O Pioneers! as Modernist Bildungsroman; Contributors; Index |
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Childhood and youth.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kaufman, Anne L., editor.
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Millington, Richard H., 1953- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Willa Cather and the nineteenth century 9780803276598 (DLC) 2015006580 (OCoLC)894747661 |
| ISBN |
9780803277267 (electronic bk.) |
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0803277261 (electronic bk.) |
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