O Pioneers!: A Norton Critical Edition by Willa Cather (English) Paperback Book

Description: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien Willa Cathers masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cathers words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit the home pasture " "Contexts and Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture of one familys life on the Nebraska prairie). "Criticism" provides seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and Sharon OBrien. Author Biography Sharon OBrien is an acclaimed author of both trade and scholarly books and a well-known Cather scholar. She is James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures at Dickinson College. She is the author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice; Willa Cather; and The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance. She is the editor of The Library of America Willa Cather (Volumes I-III) and New Essays on My Ántonia. Table of Contents List of IllustrationsIntroductionAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextThe Text of O Pioneers!Contexts and Backgrounds: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICALElizabeth Sergeant [From Willa Cather: A Memoir]1913 Interview1915 Interview1921 InterviewLatrobe Carroll - "Willa Sibert CatherDorothy Canfield Fischer - "Willa Cather, Daughter of the FrontierWilla Cather - "Preface" to Alexanders BridgeWilla Cather - "My First Novels: There Were TwoLITERARY CONTEXTSWilla Cather - "PeterWilla Cather - "A Wagner MatineeWilla Cather - [On Henry James]Henry James - From "The Lesson of the MasterEdith Wharton - From The House of MirthWilla Cather - "The Willing MuseSarah Orne Jewett - [Letters to Willa Cather]Willa Cather - "Miss JewettSarah Orne Jewett - "A White HeronWilla Cather - From Alexanders BridgeWilla Cather - "The Bohemian GirlWilla Cather - [On Whitman]Walt Whitman - "Pioneers! O Pionners!THE AMERICAN WESTThe Oblinger Letters - Library of Congress, "American Memory" siteEverett Dick - [From The Sod-House Frontier]Frederick Jackson Turner - [From "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"]Willa Cather - "Nebraska: The End of the First CycleJoseph Alexis - From "Swedes in Nebraksa" (paper read at the annual meeting of the Nebraska State Historical Society, January 22, 1914)Sarka B. Hrbkova - "Bohemians in Nebraska (Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 19)Rose Rosicky - From A History of the Czechs (Bohemians) in NebraskaMike Fischer - [From "Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism"]Criticism: CONTEMPORARY REVIEWSFrom Boston Evening TranscriptFrom Chicago Evening PostFrom McClures MagazineFrom BookmanFrom Lincoln Sunday State JournalFrom NationFrom New York Times Book ReviewMODERN CRITICAL VIEWSDavid Stouck - [Willa Cather and the Epic]John J. Murphy - [Biblical and Literary Contexts in O Pioneers!]Sharon OBrien - [Gender and Creativity in O Pioneers!]C. Susan Wiesenthal - Female Sexuality in Willa Cathers O Pioneers! and the Era ofScientific Sociology: A Dialogue between FrontiersMarilee Lindemann - [From "Introduction" to O Pioneers!]Melissa Ryan - "The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in O Pioneers!Guy Reynolds - [Willa Cather and the Pioneer Myth]Willa Cather: A ChronologySelected Bibliography Details ISBN0393924661 Author Sharon OBrien Short Title O PIONEERS Series Norton Critical Editions Language English ISBN-10 0393924661 ISBN-13 9780393924664 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.52 Illustrations Yes Edition 1st Residence NE, US Birth 1873 Death 1947 DOI 10.1604/9780393924664 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2006-08-05 NZ Release Date 2006-08-05 US Release Date 2006-08-05 UK Release Date 2006-08-05 Edited by Sharon OBrien Subtitle A Norton Critical Edition Pages 496 Publisher WW Norton & Co Edition Description Critical edition Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-08-05 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161725898;

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