| Description |
viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: For use, for pleasure, for status: the object world of Willa Cather / Janis P. Stout -- Willa Cather: a life with quilts / Ann Romines -- To entertain, to educate, to elevate: Cather and the commodification of manners at the Home Monthly / Jennifer L. Bradley -- "That kitchen with the shining windows": Willa Cather's "Neighbour Rosicky" and the Women's Home Companion / Park Bucker -- Appendix: Selected thematic concordance to "Neighbour Rosicky" -- Taking liberties: Willa Cather and the 1934 film adaptation of A lost lady / Michael Schueth -- Object lessons: nature education, museum science, and ethnographic tourism in The professor's house / Anne Raine -- "An orgy of acquisition": the female consumer, infidelity, and commodity culture in A lost lady and The professor's house / Honor McKitrick Wallace -- "Fragments of their desire": Willa Cather and the alternative aesthetic tradition of native American women / Deborah Lindsay Williams -- Material objects as sites of cultural mediation in Death comes for the archbishop / Sarah Wilson -- Gloves full of gold: violations of the gift cycle in My mortal enemy / Robert K. Miller -- Words to do with things: reading about Willa Cather and material culture / Mary Ann O'Farrell. |
| Summary |
"Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that taps 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 correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times and to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture." "The contributors explore both the objects among which Cather lived and the objects that appear in her writings, as well as the commercial constraints of the publishing industry by which her art was made and marketed. Essays address her relationship to quilts both personally and as symbols in her work; her contributions to domestic magazines such as Home Monthly and Woman's Home Companion; the problematic nature of Hollywood productions of her work; and her efforts and successes as a businesswoman. By establishing the centrality of material matters to her writing, these essays contribute to the reclaiming of Cather as a modernist and highlight the significance of material culture, in general, to the study of American literature."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Knowledge -- Material culture.
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Literature publishing -- United States.
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Material culture in literature.
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Reality in literature.
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Realism in literature.
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| Added Author |
Stout, Janis P.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Willa Cather and material culture. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005 (OCoLC)646525055 |
| ISBN |
0817314369 alkaline paper |
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9780817314361 alkaline paper |
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