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Article: "Something Coarse and Concealed": Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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Critical discussion of Cather's A Lost Lady (1923) has been occupied largely with charting the relationship between the novel's intersecting yet disparate narratives. The "three parallel plots," to use Hermione Lee's formulation, describe, first, the "grave, slow story of Captain Forrester's decline," second, the "quite different story of Marian Forrester, agitated, impassioned, contradictory," and third, the framing story that documents the values and attachments of the novel's narrator, Niel Herbert (196). As Lee observes, within these overlapping narratives lies a larger story, a national drama that maps the passing of an era Gather calls the "pioneer period" (145), ...
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