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  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

    $28.99 USD

  • Cather Studies, Volume 10

    Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century

    by Cather Studies ...
    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

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

    $28.99 USD

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  • Unbuttoning America

    A Biography of "Peyton Place"

    by Ardis Cameron ...
    Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based ... Read more

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  • American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930

    Edited by Ichiro Takayoshi ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

    Edited by Marilee Lindemann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her ... Read more

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  • American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920

    Edited by Mark W. Van Wienen ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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  • The Habit of Being

    Letters of Flannery O'Connor

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, ... Read more

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...
    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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