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...