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Article: Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World.(Book review)
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- October 1, 2006
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Willa Cather & Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World. Edited by Janis Stout. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. $37.50
In 1933, Granville Hicks published what was perhaps the most (in)famous work of literary criticism: an essay titled "The Case Against Willa Cather." In it, he accused the Nebraska author of "supine romanticism" and argued that her fear of modern technology and inability to see anything redemptive about contemporary life caused her to "recoil from our industrial civilization" and, ultimately, "retreat to the past." Making the observation that Cather set her novels progressively further back in history--from the ...