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Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire 1996th Edition
Author(s): G. Reynolds (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 1 April 1996
- Edition: 1996th
- Language: English
- Print length: 207 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333634519
- ISBN-13: 9780333634516
Book Description
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.
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GUY REYNOLDS
