Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333634516)

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.

Author: G. Reynolds
ISBN-10: 0333634519
ISBN-13: 9780333634516
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d