Melissa J. Homestead (Professor of English, Professor of English, U

The Only Wonderful Things

The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process by arguing that the writer's life partner, magazine editor Edith Lewis, had a crucial impact on Cather's literary work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780190652876
• ISBN-10: 019065287X
• Artikelnr.: 59883954

Autorenporträt

Melissa J. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania, she has published widely on American women's writing and authorship from the late 1700s through the early 1900s. She serves as Director of the Cather Project and Associate Editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather: A Digital Edition.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping the Foreground of
Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's Creative Partnership
* Chapter 2: Office Bohemia: At Home in Greenwich Village, At Work in
the Magazines
* Chapter 3: "Our Wonderful Adventures in the Southwest": Willa Cather
and Edith Lewis's Southwestern Collaborations
* Chapter 4: "The Thing Not Named": Edith Lewis's Advertising Career
and Willa Cather's Fiction and Celebrity in the 1920s
* Chapter 5: "Edith and I hope to get away to Grand Manan": Work, Play,
and Community at Whale Cove
* Chapter 6: "We are the only wonderful things": The Late Lives and
Deaths of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
* Epilogue: The Edith Lewis Ghost
* Notes