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Willa Cather and material culture : real-world writing, writing the real world

Stout, Janis P

2012

Overview

\"Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that taps 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 correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times and to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture.\" \"The contributors explore both the objects among which Cather lived and the objects that appear in her writings, as well as the commercial constraints of the publishing industry by which her art was made and marketed. Essays address her relationship to quilts both personally and as symbols in her work; her contributions to domestic magazines such as Home Monthly and Woman's Home Companion; the problematic nature of Hollywood productions of her work; and her efforts and successes as a businesswoman. By establishing the centrality of material matters to her writing, these essays contribute to the reclaiming of Cather as a modernist and highlight the significance of material culture, in general, to the study of American literature.\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Subject: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 Criticism and interpretation. / Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 Knowledge Material culture. / Literature publishing United States. / Material culture in literature. / Reality in literature. / Realism in literature.
• ISBN: 0817357319, 9780817357313

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3505.A87 Z93525 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE