Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Sibert Cather

Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Sibert Cather

In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: Coming, Aphrodite focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; Paul's Case and A Wagner Matin e tell of a young man and an old woman with artistic longings crushed by their environments; The Sculptor's Funeral and The Diamond Mine show the high costs of success. The historical essay and explanatory notes trace the composition of the stories and their roots in the people, events, and places Cather knew, from her family to world-famous sopranos, from Nebraska and Wyoming to New York and Pittsburgh, with new information on the sources for Paul's Case. Historical photographs, including a hitherto unknown portrait of the prototype for Paul, show people and places as Cather knew them. The textual essay and apparatus explore the versions that appeared in her lifetime, from first magazine publication to the final collected edition of her works-and describe how the magazine version of Coming, Aphrodite was censored by the editors, even to the title. Mark J. Madigan is a professor of English at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. He is the author of many articles on Willa Cather and the editor of three volumes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Frederick M. Link and Charles W. Mignon are both professors emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and textual editors of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series. Judith Boss is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and teaches computer applications in English. She has digitized several American literature texts for Project Gutenberg and other digital libraries and repositories. Kari A. Ronning is a research associate professor of English, assistant editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series, and codirector of the Willa Cather Journalism project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author best known for her novels about life on the Great Plains' frontier, such as O Pioneers! One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather was born in Virginia and raised in Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She spent eleven years in Pittsburgh, working as a magazine editor and high school English teacher to support herself. She relocated to New York City at the age of 33, where she spent the rest of her life, but she also traveled extensively and spent time at her summer house on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.

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ISBN 13	9781015732544
ISBN 10	1015732542
Title	Youth and the Bright Medusa
Author	Willa Sibert Cather
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legare Street Press
Year published	2022-10-27
Number of pages	190
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