Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice - Softcover

O'Brien, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449902838 ISBN 13: 9780449902837

Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, 1987

Synopsis

Traces the life of the American novelist, examines the development of her writing, and discusses the influence of her personal life on her work

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon O'Brien is John Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures at Dickinson College and editor of the Library of America edition of the works of Willa Cather.

From Library Journal:

In the first of a two-volume biography that concludes with the 1913 publication of O Pioneers! , O'Brien pursues two aims. One is to show how Cather developed as a personality, establishing a space for herself and creating a distinctive writing voice. The other is to utilize and validate the methodologies of feminist criticism in a redefinition of the American literary canon. But though this richly documented and passionately argued work shows that O'Brien clearly has the ability to accomplish both tasks, she does not succeed entirely in integrating them. Often she uses the novelist as a cardboard exemplum of the plight of feminist creativity in a patriarchal society, sometimes causing her unique personality to dissolve into a vague "sisterhood." Still, there is more material and more illuminating reading here than in any previous Cather biography. Earl Rovit, The City College of New York
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0449902838
• ISBN 13: 9780449902837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464