Willa Cather by Hermoine Lee

Willa Cather by Hermoine Lee

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A biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947), whose work charts new, female versions of epic pioneering heroism and the cultural encounters of the "New World" history. The author finds a disconcerting Cather - a writer of split identities, sexual conflict, dramatic energies and stoic fatalism.

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Willa Cather by Hermoine Lee

A biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947), who spent years working as a journalist, teacher and editor of a New York magazine whose deepest feelings were directed towards women. Her friendships from Sarah Orne Jewett and Dorothy Canfield to Stephen Tennant and Yehudi Menuhin were important to her yet as she became more famous she withdrew increasingly from the modern world she disliked. Willa Cather's fiction charts new, female versions of epic pioneering heroism and the extraordinary cultural encounters of the "New World" history. This major reinterpretation of Cather's work explores that American context and those traditions but finds a strange and disconcerting Cather a writer of split identities, sexual conflict, dramatic energies and stoic fatalism. The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and "The Short Stories of Willa Cather".
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ISBN 13 9780860686613
ISBN 10 0860686612
Title Willa Cather
Author Hermoine Lee
Series Virago Modern Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1989-10-05
Number of pages 416
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