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Guy J Reynolds

Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

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Guy J. Reynolds' book "Willa Cather and the Body" offers a radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's work, focusing on embodiment and narrative and reading Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. It presents new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies, Native American culture, whiteness, and the black body.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 18 February 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press


A groundbreaking re-examination of Willa Cather's literary legacy

Distinctive contribution to Body Studies

Offers a fresh perspective on Cather's relationship to literary/cultural Modernism

Deploys the concepts and techniques of Body Studies

Guy J. Reynolds re-maps 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.


Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474438261

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