{"title":"Books by Cather Studies","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781496241290","title":"Cather Studies, Volume 14","description":"American author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first encountered differences and dislocations that remained lively, productive, and sometimes deeply troubling sites of tension and energy throughout her writing life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eCather Studies, Volume 14\u003c\/i\u003e seek to unsettle prevailing assumptions about Cather’s work as she moved from Virginia to Nebraska to Pittsburgh to New York City to New Mexico and farther west, and to Grand Manan Island. The essays range from examinations of how race shapes and misshapes Cather’s final novel, \u003ci\u003eSapphira and the Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, to challenges to criticisms of her 1935 novel, \u003ci\u003eLucy Gayheart\u003c\/i\u003e. Contributors also frame fresh discussions of Cather’s literary influences and cultural engagements in the first decade of her career as a novelist through the lens of sex and gender and examine Cather’s engagements with region as a geopolitical, sociolinguistic, and literary site. Together, the essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Cather’s texts-both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419838951797,"sku":"9781496241290","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781496241290_2c58a334-c064-4191-8474-b9c2f00e3d0d.jpg?v=1786021631"},{"product_id":"cather-studies-volume-15","title":"Cather Studies, Volume 15","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough it has long been claimed that Willa Cather destroyed most of her letters in order to protect her privacy, the record now makes clear that this is largely myth: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather digital archive has collected more than three thousand letters, and more are regularly being located. What can we learn about Cather and her fiction from such a wealth of firsthand writings? The essays in \u003ci\u003eCather Studies, Volume 15\u003c\/i\u003e use a variety of approaches to consider both letters authored by Cather and letters written to her, shining new light on Cather's relationships with her brother Roscoe Cather and her friends playwright and screenwriter Zoë Akins and opera diva Olive Fremstad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders also come to understand Cather's pleasure in artistic works produced by others, her experience of disability, and her appreciation of the GIs who read her books in Armed Services Editions. Contributors show how digital tools can be used to read across her letters at a larger scale, finding patterns and trends not discernible using conventional methods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484204343669,"sku":"9781496247155","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781496247155.jpg?v=1786266248"},{"product_id":"cather-studies-volume-16","title":"Cather Studies, Volume 16","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57573168546165,"sku":"9781496251961","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-cather-studies.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}