The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather [Paperback]

This Companion covers the full range of Cather's career, and includes a detailed chronology and guide to further reading.This Companion offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American novelist. The essays collected here cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her novels and short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship and the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of this enigmatic author.This Companion offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American novelist. The essays collected here cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her novels and short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship and the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of this enigmatic author.Thirteen original essays by leading scholars cover the complete range of Cather's career, including most of her novels and short stories. The essays situate this major, enigmatic American novelist's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts. The introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship and her place in contemporary culture. A detailed chronology and a guide to further reading complete the volume.List of illustrators; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Willa Cather's life; Introduction Marilee Lindemann; Part I. Contexts and Critical Issues: 1. Willa Cather as progressive: politics and the writer Guy J. Reynolds; 2. The Cather thesis: the American empirel#4