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Willa Cather in Context

Progress, Race, Empire

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  • © 1996

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  1. Guy Reynolds

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 1-25

  3. ‘American Literature’ and the Failure of American Culture

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 26-45

  4. Imperial History: O Pioneers! and the Settlement of the Plains

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 46-72

  5. My Ántonia and the Americanisation Debate

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 73-98

  6. One of Ours: The Progressive Bildungsroman and the Death of Idealism

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 99-123

  7. The Professor's House and the Incorporation of America

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 124-149

  8. Death Comes for the Archbishop: the Ideology of Cather's Catholic Progressivism

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 150-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 174-198
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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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  • University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Guy Reynolds

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