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1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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Introduction: For use, for pleasure, for status: the object world of Willa Cather / Janis P. Stout -- Willa Cather: a life with quilts / Ann Romines -- To entertain, to educate, to elevate: Cather and the commodification of manners at the Home Monthly / Jennifer L. Bradley -- "That kitchen with the shining windows": Willa Cather's "Neighbour Rosicky" and the Women's Home Companion / Park Bucker -- Appendix: Selected thematic concordance to "Neighbour Rosicky" -- Taking liberties: Willa Cather and the 1934 film adaptation of A lost lady / Michael Schueth -- Object lessons: nature education, museum science, and ethnographic tourism in The professor's house / Anne Raine -- "An orgy of acquisition": the female consumer, infidelity, and commodity culture in A lost lady and The professor's house / Honor McKitrick Wallace -- "Fragments of their desire": Willa Cather and the alternative aesthetic tradition of native American women / Deborah Lindsay Williams -- Material objects as sites of cultural mediation in Death comes for the archbishop / Sarah Wilson -- Gloves full of gold: violations of the gift cycle in My mortal enemy / Robert K. Miller -- Words to do with things: reading about Willa Cather and material culture / Mary Ann O'Farrell |
| Summary |
Thes 11 essays address Willa Cather's work and career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Knowledge -- Material culture
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 fast |
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Cather, Willa. swd |
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Literature publishing -- United States
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Material culture in literature.
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Reality in literature.
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Realism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Material culture
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Literature publishing
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Material culture in literature
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Realism in literature
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Reality in literature
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Sachkultur
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Stout, Janis P.
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| ISBN |
9780817382322 |
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0817382321 |
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