Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre

Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body.

Author: Guy J. Reynolds
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 06/16/2021
Series: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781474438254