Willa Cather and Material Culture - Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World

Informationen zum Autor Janis P. Stout is the author of Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times; Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion; Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World; and A Calender of the Letters of Willa Cather. Klappentext A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather's work and Cather scholarship. "This collection is significant for focusing attention upon the importance of material culture to Cather and to her writing. Beyond its significance to understanding Cather, the [book] provides a case study of the range of approaches to material culture in American literary studies."--Susan Rosowski, author of "The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism"CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Bradley, Park Bucker, Robert K. Miller, Mary Ann O'Farrell, Anne Raine, Ann Romines, Michael Schueth, Janis P. Stout, Honor McKitrick Wallace, Deborah Lindsay Williams, and Sarah Wilson Zusammenfassung A collection of 11 new essays that tap 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 demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times.

Product details

• Authors: Janis P. (EDT)/ Stout Stout
• Assisted by: Janis Stout (Editor), Janis P. Stout (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2012
• EAN: 9780817357313
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5731-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in American Literary R; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies