{"product_id":"memorial-fictions-steven-trout-9780803218376","title":"Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War","description":"\u003ci\u003eMemorial Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major reassessment of Willa Cather's career and artistic achievements, provides a plethora of information on popular culture during and immediately after the Great War, and demonstrates the importance of literature as a cultural forum for addressing issues and ideas fundamental to American culture. Based on extensive archival research and a variety of scholarly sources drawn from several disciplines, Steven Trout shows how Cather's analysis of the First World War in \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's House\u003c\/i\u003e represents a considerable accomplishment, one worthy of standing next to her groundbreaking treatment of Nebraska settlers in \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy ﾁntonia\u003c\/i\u003e and her virtual reinvention of the historical novel in \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShadows on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. Furthermore, he argues that Cather's First World War-related fiction deserves consideration alongside such established classics as Ernest Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms, \u003c\/i\u003e Erich Maria Remarque's \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e, and Vera Brittain's \u003ci\u003eTestament of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e. Though awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, One of Ours was a frequently maligned and misunderstood book. Contemporary male reviewers reviled the work, and it has been Cather's most neglected novel among later generations of readers and scholars. Trout not only reevaluates the impact of the First World War on Cather's fiction but also demonstrates that \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours\u003c\/i\u003e, far from representing a dubious achievement within the Cather canon, renders the American experience of the war with prophetic insight and considerable imaginative vigor. He also offers a detailed reappraisal of \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's House\u003c\/i\u003e, showing it to be a novel haunted by the phantomlike presence of the Great War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Kirk Trout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803218370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803218376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Steven Kirk Trout","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120242061567,"sku":"9780803218376","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0b822f1-e053-4b6a-9081-11e432a2a83a.jpg?v=1687413267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/memorial-fictions-steven-trout-9780803218376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}