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Cather Studies eBook Series

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  • Cather Studies, Volume 13

    Willa Cather's Pittsburgh

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896–1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 12

    Willa Cather and the Arts

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 11

    Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays.The first section ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 15

    Willa Cather and Letters

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    Although it has long been claimed that Willa Cather destroyed most of her letters in order to protect her privacy, the record now makes clear that this is largely myth: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather digital archive has collected more than three thousand letters, and more are regularly being located. What can we learn about Cather and her fiction from such a wealth of firsthand writings? The ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 14

    Unsettling Cather

    by Cather Studies ...
    Series series Cather Studies
    American author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first encountered differences and dislocations that remained lively, productive, and sometimes deeply troubling sites of tension and energy throughout her writing life.The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 14 seek to unsettle ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 10

    Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century

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    Series series Cather Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

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