Willa Cather in Context

Progress, Race, Empire

• Author(s): G. Reynolds,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 198
• ISBN_10: 023037624X
  ISBN_13: 9780230376243
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / American / General , Fiction / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

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.