The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism

by Susan J. Rosowski

Book Overview

They Voyage Perilous is the first extended interpretation of Willa Cather's writing within the literary tradition of romanticism. Although she partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form. Susan J...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238746
• ISBN13: 9780803238749
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.