A scholarly study of how Willa Cather’s Virginia childhood and Southern heritage shaped pastoral and political themes in her novels.
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A scholarly study of how Willa Cather’s Virginia childhood and Southern heritage shaped pastoral and political themes in her novels.
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Beginning with an examination of Cather's Virginia childhood and the Southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, McDonald traces the effects of those influences in several of Cather's novels. The patterns that emerge are often surprising. They reveal not only Cather's strong ideological connection to the pastoral but also the political position implicit in her choice of that particular mode.
Further analysis of Cather's work reveals her preoccupation with hierarchi...
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Central focus on power, hierarchy, and political ideology in Cather’s work
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Thematic discussion of hierarchy and abuse of power in Cather’s fiction
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