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Strange brothers. (homosexuality in Willa Cather's novels)(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19960922
Author:Goldberg, Jonathan

Willa Cather's works can be read in the context of the author's personal sexuality. Her language carries second meanings that can be detected by gay men. Episodes of cross-gender identification can be seen 'Tom Outland's Story,' and they reappear in 'The Professor's House.' These allude to the relationship of Cather and Edith Lewis, with whom she built and shared a house.

I first read Willa Cather when I was in high school. I can no longer remember which novel we were assigned--it must have been O Pioneers! or My Antonia--but I can still recall what it felt like to be reading Cather ...

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