| Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Stout, Janis P. (Editor), Stout, Janis P. (Contribution by), Bucker, Park (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0817357319 ISBN-13: 9780817357313 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Series: Studies in American Literary Realism & Naturalism (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather's work and Cather scholarship. Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her 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. The contributors explore both the objects among which Cather lived and the objects that appear in her writings, as well as the commercial constraints of the publishing industry in which her art was made and marketed. Essays address her relationship to quilts both personally and as symbols in her work; her contributions to domestic magazines such as Home Monthly and Woman's Home Companion; the problematic nature of Hollywood productions of her work; and her efforts and successes as a businesswoman. By establishing the centrality of material matters to her writing, these essays contribute to the reclaiming of Cather as a modernist and highlight the significance of material culture, in general, to the study of American literature. |