Willa Cather and the nineteenth century / edited by Anne L. Kaufman and Richard H. Millington.

Other author Kaufman, Anne L., editor.
Other author Millington, Richard H., 1953- editor.
Format Book
PublicationLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Descriptionxx, 415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Childhood and youth.
Literature and society--United States. --History. --19th century.
Literature and society--United States. --History. --20th century.

SeriesCather studies ; 10
Cather studies ; 10. ^A1278279
Contents Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the historiography of lesbian sexuality / Melissa J. Homestead -- Cather's readers, traditionalism, and modern America / Charles Johanningsmeier -- Time out of place: modernity and the rise of environmentalism in Willa Cather's O pioneers! / Leila C. Nadir -- Contamination, modernity, health, and art in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather / Susan Meyer -- From sentimentality to sex: the circus motif in Willa Cather's writing / Steven B. Shively -- Daughter of a war lost, won, and evaded: Cather and the ambiguities of the Civil War / Janis Stout -- A [slave] girl's life in Virginia before the war: Willa Cather and antebellum nostalgia / John Jacobs -- Cather's Jewett: relationship, influence, and representation / Deborah Carlin -- Willa Cather and the example of Henry James / Elsa Nettels -- Kindred spirits: Willa Cather and Henry James / John J. Murphy --The rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's modernism and the Howellsian prextext / Joseph C. Murphy -- Echoes of Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage in Willa Cather's One of ours / Ann Moseley -- Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virginians: literary prototypes for My mortal enemy / Richard C. Harris -- "One knows it too well to know it well": Willa Cather, A.E. Housman, and A Shropshire lad / Robert Thacker -- Following the Lieder: Cather, Schubert, and Lucy Gayheart / David Porter -- Pompeii and the house of the tragic poet in A lost lady / Matthew Hokom -- Making it new: O pioneers! as modernist bildungsroman / Sarah Stoeckl.
Abstract "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015006580
ISBN9780803276598 (paperback)
ISBN0803276591 (paperback)
ISBN0803277261 (pdf)
ISBN9780803277267 (pdf)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3505 .A87 Z935275 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold