The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence. Cather's intellectual intercourse between the Old and the New World was a two-way street, moving both...
The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first vi...
Cather Studies Richard H. Millington Anne L. Kaufman
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century the cultures that shaped Willa Cather s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values are addressed in her fiction.
In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather s life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of...
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the...
