{"product_id":"cather-among-the-moderns-9780817361235","title":"Cather Among the Moderns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilla Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In \u003cem\u003eCather Among the Moderns\u003c\/em\u003e, Janis Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany scholars—among them Jo Ann Middleton in \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather’s Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e and Rick Middleton in various writings—have convincingly argued that certain fictions by Willa Cather (1873–1947) exhibit many of the traits usually associated with modernist art of the early 20th century: experimentation with form, disruption of conventional ways of seeing “reality,” and a questioning of traditional morals, values, and societal structures. Stout seeks not only to expand this list to include other Cather works—\u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Lost Lady\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShadows on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e—but also to demonstrate that Cather herself was ‘modern’ (synonymous with 'progressive' and 'liberal') in her actions and attitudes, and thus should be seen as closely akin to her American modernist writer contemporaries. Stout offers a number of persuasive arguments concerning Cather’s modernist literary techniques but does not present sufficient evidence to dispel the prevailing understanding of Cather as a person who (except in the case of exploring alternative roles for women) held rather conventional views for her time, and neither actively engaged in the types of activities nor adhered to the same types of liberal beliefs that most modernist American writers did.\" - \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCather Among the Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e offers a considerable contribution to Willa Cather studies, demonstrating exemplary scholarship in blending close literary analysis with historical and biographical insights.\" - \u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCather Among the Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to the field of Cather scholarship. It will immediately be a touchstone for anyone working on Cather; with its groundbreaking study of the relationships between Cather and a range of other authors and their works, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost, it will also serve as a wonderful resource for future studies. Further, it helps us understand literary modernism, and modernism itself, in deeper and more nuanced ways.\" - Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War\u003c\/i\u003e and a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation","brand":"UNIV OF ALABAMA PR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577657135447,"sku":"9780817361235","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817361235.jpg?v=1746096072","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cather-among-the-moderns-9780817361235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}