Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire

By Guy Reynolds

Book Overview

Drawing on a range of material from archives in the USA and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. Reynolds explores 'progressivism', 'primitivism' and 'Americanization' in such novels as My Antonia and O Pioneers Willa Cather in Context develops interdisciplinary readings of this important Nebraskan novelist, placing her as a writer actively engaged with many of the key debates of early twentieth-century America, from immigration to evolutionary theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333634519
• ISBN13: 9780333634516
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"