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

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070401
Author:Varvogli, Aliki

Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real World Writing, Writing the Real World. Ed. by JANIS P. STOUT. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. ix + 240 pp. $37.50. ISBN 978-0-8173-1436-1.

A collection of essays on the role of material objects in Willa Cather's life and work may seem odd. After all, Cather is best known for her interest in nature and open spaces, and she is also the author of 'The Novel Demeuble', which called for the stage of the novel to be free of clutter, for the fictional world to be free of the accumulation of objects that distract real, ordinary ...

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