The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage

by Joyce McDonald

Book Overview

Connecting Cather's work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth A 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. Joyce McDonald shows evidence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817359583
• ISBN13: 9780817359584
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"