Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire
Drawing on a range of material from archives in the USA and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. Reynolds explores 'progressivism', 'primitivism' and 'Americanization' in such novels as My Antonia and O Pioneers! Willa Cather in Context develops interdisciplinary readings of this important Nebraskan novelist, placing her as a writer actively engaged with many of the key debates of early twentieth-century America, from immigration to evolutionary theory.
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Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire
Drawing on a range of material from archives in the USA and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. Reynolds explores 'progressivism', 'primitivism' and 'Americanization' in such novels as My Antonia and O Pioneers! Willa Cather in Context develops interdisciplinary readings of this important Nebraskan novelist, placing her as a writer actively engaged with many of the key debates of early twentieth-century America, from immigration to evolutionary theory.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780333634516 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 04/01/1996 |
Series: | Progress, Race, Empire |
Edition description: | 1996 |
Pages: | 198 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d) |
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