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• ISBN: 0521527937
• ISBN: 9780521527934
• ISBN: 052182110X
• ISBN: 9780521821100
• Physical Description: 229 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Contexts and critical issues 17 -- 1 Willa Cather as progressive: politics and the writer / Guy J. Reynolds 19 -- 2 Cather thesis: the American empire of migration / Joseph R. Urgo 35 -- 3 Willa Cather's American modernism / Richard H. Millington 51 -- 4 Willa Cather and the geography of Jewishness / Lisa Marcus 66 -- 5 Willa Cather and sexuality / Jonathan Goldberg 86 -- 6 Willa Cather and the performing arts / Janis P. Stout 101 -- 7 Willa Cather and the comic sense of self / Susan J. Rosowski 116 -- 8 Cather and the short story / Mark J. Madigan 131 -- 9 Willa Cather in the country of the ill / Sharon O'Brien 146 -- Part II Studies of major works 157 -- 10 Rereading My Antonia / Anne E. Goldman 159 -- 11 Fictions of possession in The Professor's House / John N. Swift 175 -- 12 Catholic expansionism and the politics of depression in Death Comes for the Archbishop / Leona Sevick 191 -- 13 Willa Cather and "the old story": Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Ann Romines 205.

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Subject:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century > Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

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