Willa Cather and Material Culture - 9780817357313

Willa Cather and Material CultureReal-World Writing, Writing the Real World\nAuthor(s): Janis Stout, Janis Stout, Park Bucker, Robert Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817357313, 978-0817357313\nSynopsis\nWilla Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times.\n\nThe contributors explore both the objects among which Cather lived and the objects that appear in her writings, as well as the commercial constraints of the publishing industry in which her art was made and marketed. Essays address her relationship to quilts both .