My Ántonia: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

My Ántonia: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0393967905
ISBN-13:
9780393967906
Pub. Date:
08/26/2015
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0393967905
ISBN-13:
9780393967906
Pub. Date:
08/26/2015
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
My Ántonia: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

My Ántonia: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

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Overview

In the final volume in her prairie trilogy, Willa Cather fully transforms memory into art to create her most autobiographical novel.

Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather’s own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Ántonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather’s childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text.

“Contexts and Backgrounds” is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel’s central themes: “Autobiographical and Biographical Writings,” “Letters,” and “Americanization and Immigration.” Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included.

“Criticism” spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Ántonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W. Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown.

A Chronology of Cather’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393967906
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/26/2015
Series: Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 544
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Sharon O'Brien is an acclaimed author of both trade and scholarly books and a well-known Cather scholar. She is James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures at Dickinson College. She is the author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice; Willa Cather; and The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance. She is the editor of The Library of America Willa Cather (Volumes I-III) and New Essays on My Ántonia.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895
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