| Description |
viii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: For use, for pleasure, for status: the object world of Willa Cather / Janis P. Stout -- Willa Cather: a life with quilts / Ann Romines -- To entertain, to educate, to elevate: Cather and the commodification of manners at the Home Monthly / Jennifer L. Bradley -- "That kitchen with the shining windows": Willa Cather's "Neighbour Rosicky" and the Women's Home Companion / Park Bucker -- Appendix: Selected thematic concordance to "Neighbour Rosicky" -- Taking liberties: Willa Cather and the 1934 film adaptation of A lost lady / Michael Schueth -- Object lessons: nature education, museum science, and ethnographic tourism in The professor's house / Anne Raine -- "Orgy of acquisition": the female consumer, infidelity, and commodity culture in A lost lady and The professor's house / Honor McKitrick Wallace -- "Fragments of their desire": Willa Cather and the alternative aesthetic tradition of native American women / Deborah Lindsay Williams -- Material objects as sites of cultural mediation in Death comes for the archbishop / Sarah Wilson -- Gloves full of gold: violations of the gift cycle in My mortal enemy / Robert K. Miller -- Words to do with things: reading about Willa Cather and material culture / Mary Ann O'Farrell. |
| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Knowledge -- Material culture.
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Literature publishing -- United States.
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Material culture in literature.
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Reality in literature.
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Realism in literature.
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| Added Author |
Stout, Janis P.
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| ISBN |
0817314369 (alk. paper) |
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9780817314361 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2116400 |
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NZ1 8424670 |
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