The Stuff of Our Forebears - 9780817359584

The Stuff of Our ForebearsWilla Cather's Southern Heritage\nAuthor(s): Joyce McDonald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359584, 978-0817359584\nSynopsis\nMcDonald demonstrates that Cather's works yield a remarkable wealth of themes and literary modes connecting her to the South of her youth and to the southern literary tradition.\n\nA diverse and experimental writer who lived most of her life in New York City, Willa Cather is best known for her depiction of pioneer life on the Nebraska plains. Despite Cather's association with Nebraska, however, the novelist's Virginia childhood and her southern family were deeply influential in shaping her literary imagination.\n\nJoyce McDonald shows evidence, for example, of Cather's southern sensibility in the class consciousness and aesthetic values of her characters and in their sense of place and desire for historical continuity, a sensibilit.