Willa Cather's New York
Subtitle: new essays on Cather in the city
By: edited by Merrill Maguire Skaggs.
Contributors: Skaggs, Merrill Maguire.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, [NJ]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Knowledge -- New York (State) -- New York; Women and literature -- New York (State) -- New York; City and town life in literature; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
Description: "This first facts established in Willa Cather's New York are those concerning Cather's familiarity with the city scene before she moved into it, and the importance of locations she moved through daily, once she arrived. Among those locations, the centrally important ones were where she first lived, in Washington Square, and where she first worked, at McClure's Magazine. Both of these sites are replicated in her fiction. But she doesn't arrive in them as a tabula rasa.

She had been interested in medicine from her adolescence, as she continued to be until she died. That interest infuses her cityscapes from her earlier stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.