Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-240) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Willa Cather in the realm of the senses -- Chapter 2. Cather's bodily art and the emergence of modernism -- Chapter 3. 'Sense-dwarfed' : Cather, aestheticism and a new corporealism -- Chapter 4. Pale shades and living colors : Cather's looks -- Chapter 5. Sound affects : Music, voice, and silence in 'The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy' and 'Lucy Gayheart' -- Chapter 6. Touch : Haptic narrative in 'The Professor's House', 'Shadows on the Rock' and 'Sapphira and the Slave Girl' -- Chapter 7. Cather, taste, and national cuisines : 'The Professor's House', 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' and 'Shadows on the Rock' -- Chapter 8. Cather's smellscapes : Perfumes and flowers, disgust and seduction -- Chapter 9. Conclusion : The body of the author -- Bibliography and further reading -- Index.
Summary:
"A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre. Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body."--taken from back cover.
Series:
Modern American literature and the new twentieth century
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