{"product_id":"willa-cather-and-others-9780822326724","title":"Willa Cather and Others","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter many years as one of the premier scholars of English Renaissance literature, Jonathan Goldberg turns his attention to the work of American novelist Willa Cather. With a focus on Cather's artistic principle of \"the thing not named,\" Willa \u003ci\u003eCather and Others\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused.\u003cbr\u003eThe \"others\" referred to in the title are women, for the most part Cather's contemporaries, whose artistic projects allow for points of comparison with Cather. They include the Wagnerian diva Olive Fremstad, renowned for her category-defying voice; Blair Niles, an ethnographer and novelist of jazz-age Harlem and the prisons of New Guinea; Laura Gilpin, photographer of the American Southwest; and Pat Barker, whose \u003ci\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy places World War I writers-and questions of sexuality and gender-at its center. In the process of studying these women and their work, Goldberg forms innovative new insights into a wide range of Cather's celebrated works, from \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy �ntonia\u003c\/i\u003e to her later books \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Lark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSapphira and the Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eBy applying his unique talent to the study of Cather's literary genius, Jonathan Goldberg makes a significant and new contribution to the study of American literature and queer studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614392500375,"sku":"9780822326724","price":3399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822326724.webp?v=1775093268","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/willa-cather-and-others-9780822326724","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}