Willa Cather
Subtitle: the writer and her world
By: Janis P. Stout.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Previous biographies of Willa Cather have either recycled the traditional view of a writer detached from social issues whose work supported a wholesome view of a vanished America, or they have focused solely on revelations about her private life. Challenging these narrow interpretations, Janis P. Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day.".

"The Cather that emerges from Stout's treatment is a modernist conservative in the mold of T.S. Eliot, though more responsive to her time and simultaneously less assured in her pronouncements. Cather's sexuality, too, is more complicated in Stout's version than previous biographers have allowed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-366) and index.