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Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing, Writing the Real World.(Book review)

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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20060101
Author:Sawaya, Francesca

Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World. Edited by Janis P. Stout. University of Alabama Press, 2005. 256 pp. $37.50.

Two central arguments emerge in Janis Stout's helpful introduction to this collection of essays. Stout asserts, first of all, that cultural historians have long privileged "words ... above material objects" and that material culture studies represent a useful corrective to this tendency (2). Second, Stout says that Willa Cather has been historically misread as someone for whom the material world was unimportant and that ...

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