Cather Studies, Volume 6 : History, Memory, and War (Cather Studies)

Cather Studies/ Trout, Steven Kirk (EDT)

University of Nebraska Press（2006/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803294646
• DDC分類 813.52

Full Description

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. 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 Ántonia, 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.

Contents

Introduction - Steven Trout; Willa Cather's Civil War: A Very Long Engagement - Ann Romines; Jim Burden and the White Man's Burden: My Antonia and Empire - Michael Gorman; The Not-So-Great War: Cather Family Letters and the Spanish-American War - Margaret Anne O'Connor; Between Two Wars in a Breaking World: Willa Cather and the Persistence of War Consciousness - Janis P. Stout; The "Enid Problem": Dangerous Modernity in One of Ours - Pearl James; "Squeezed into an Unnatural Shape": Bayliss Wheeler and the Element of Control in One of Ours - Celia M. Kingsbury; "As Green as Their Money": The Doughboy Naifs in One of Ours - Mary R. Ryder; Recreation in World War I and the Practice of Play in One of Ours - Mark A. Robison; Culture and the "Cathedral": Tourism as Potlatch in One of Ours - Debra Rae Cohen; On the Front and at Home: Wharton, Cather, the Jews, and the First World War - Susan Meyer; Looking at Agony: World War I in The Professor's House - Jennifer Haytock; Cather's Literary Choreography: The "Glittering Idea" of Scientific Warfare in The Professor's House - Wendy K. Perriman; Rebuilding the Outland Engine: A New Source for The Professor's House - Steven Trout; Wartime Fictions: Willa Cather, the Armed Services Editions, and the Unspeakable Second World War - Mary Chinery