Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South

by Ann Romines

Book Overview

Willa Cather spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where her family had lived for five generations. Even after the Cathers' move to Nebraska, she came of age in an emphatically southern extended family, surrounded by Virginia stories, customs, and controversies. As Eudora Welty has declared, "She did not come out of Virginia for nothing." Throughout her career, Cather's fiction drew strength from the people, places, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813919606
• ISBN13: 9780813919607
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher