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

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20070622
Author:Swift, John N.

STOUT, JANIS P. Ed. Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 256 pp. $37.50.

The essays in this collection address in several ways a paradox in Willa Cather's aesthetic. On the one hand, as Janis Stout points out in the volume's introduction, Cather self-consciously urged excision and absence in literary art. Her well-known 1922 manifesto (the New Republic essay entitled "The Novel Demeuble") complained that "the novel, for a long while, has been over-furnished" (Cather 35), gratuitously ...

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