| Isolation and Masquerade: Willa Cather's Women Contributor(s): Kaye, Frances W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820417645 ISBN-13: 9780820417646 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $55.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 91046127 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Series: New Connections |
| Physical Information: 204 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although generations of readers have derived enormous satisfaction from the victories of Willa Cather's great woman characters, and recent lesbian critics and others have triumphantly claimed her as a lesbian writer, few readers or critics have noticed the strain of mistrust for most women that runs through virtually all of Cather's work. This study traces the troubling undercurrent of misogyny signalled by isolation and masquerade in Cather's fiction. It also discusses the ways it affects her portrayals of all her female characters, and how we as readers may respond. |