History, Memory and WarSteven Trout U of Nebraska Press, 2006 M12 1 - 312 páginas Cather Studies 6 is part of a growing body of scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather?s longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of her day. This chronologically arranged collection demonstrates that Cather found the subject of war both unavoidable, because of her position in history, and artistically irresistible. The volume begins with an essay addressing the American Civil War as part of Cather?s southern cultural inheritance and concludes with an account of the aging writer?s participation in the Armed Services Editions Program of World War II. ø Military matters surface not only in One of Ours and The Professor?s House, Cather?s two major contributions to the literature of World War I, but in most of her other works as well, including My ?ntonia, in which the Plains Indian Wars and the Spanish-American conflict of 1898 are subtly but significantly evoked, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Cather?s largely ironic contribution to the genre of southern ?Lost Cause? fiction. Containing essays by leading Cather scholars, such as Ann Romines and Janis Stout, and work by specialists in war literature, whose inclusion expands the number and range of critical perspectives, this volume breaks new ground. |
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A Very Long Engagement Ann Romines | 1 |
My Ántonia and Empire Michael Gorman | 28 |
Cather Family Letters and the SpanishAmerican War Margaret Anne OConnor | 58 |
Willa Cather and the Persistence of War Consciousness Janis P Stout | 70 |
Dangerous Modernity in One of Ours Pearl James | 92 |
Bayliss Wheeler and the Element of Control in One of Ours Celia M Kingsbury | 129 |
The Doughboy Naïfs in One of Ours Mary R Ryder | 145 |
Recreation inWorld War I and the Practice of Play in One of Ours Mark A Robison | 160 |
Wharton Cather the Jews and the First World War Susan Meyer | 205 |
World War I in The Professors House Jennifer Haytock | 228 |
The Glittering Idea of Scientific Warfare in The Professors House Wendy K Perriman | 244 |
A New Source for The Professors House Steven Trout | 271 |
Willa Cather the Armed Services Editions and the Unspeakable Second World War Mary Chinery | 285 |
Contributors | 297 |
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Tourism as Potlatch in One of Ours Debra Ray Cohen | 184 |
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