The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873‐1947) is perhaps less well known in the UK than in the USA where there is “an ongoing fascination with a major American novelist”. Marilee Lindemann indicates in her Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather that her subject “is no longer merely Nebraska's first lady of letters, whose well‐wrought paeans to ‘the American Dream’ earned the modestly respectful attention of myth‐and‐symbol critics and new critics throughout the 1950s and 1960s”. As the 13 original essays in Lindemann's volume demonstrate “Cather studies have been revitalized and almost wholly transformed in the last thirty years” (p. 3).

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