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Willa Cather's "pioneer" novels and (not new, not old) historical reading.
From: College Literature
Date: 19990322
Author:Corkin, Stanley; Frus, Phyllis
A materialist historical approach is used to analyze four of Willa Cather's 'pioneer' novels, 'O Pioneers' (1913), 'My Antonia' (1918), 'A Lost Lady' (1923) and 'The Professor's House' (1925). This historical examination reveals that the tomes did not incorporate relevant historical circumstances that surround the novel and therefore were able to maintain the author's romantic but facile vision of American life at the turn of the 20th century. A systematic and materialist reading of the field of the 'historical' within literary studies, such as the method used in this analysis, can lead to an ...
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