Willa Cather and Aestheticism
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Willa Cather and Aestheticism

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Willa Cather and Aestheticism

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In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches—derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between art and religion—this collection will increase our understanding of Cather's aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I: The Aesthetic Movement
  4. Chapter 1: Exit Smiling
  5. Chapter 2: Innocence and Experience, Good and Evil, and Doppelgangers
  6. Chapter 3: Willa Cather’s Time Machine
  7. Chapter 4: Aestheticism and the Dispossessed
  8. Chapter 5: Willa Cather’s Disenchanted Epicurean
  9. Part II: The Visual Arts
  10. Chapter 6: The Arts and Crafts on Willa Cather’s Frontier
  11. Chapter 7: Cather’s “Twilight Stage”
  12. Chapter 8: Willa Cather, the Nabi of Red Cloud
  13. Chapter 9: Blessed Damsels, Lost Ladies, and Cather’s Real Women
  14. Chapter 10: Fernand LĂ©ger and Willa Cather’s “Coming, Aphrodite!”
  15. Part III: Movement toward Modernism
  16. Chapter 11: “The Nude Had Descended the Staircase”
  17. Chapter 12: With the “Hand, Fastidious and Bold”
  18. Chapter 13: From British Aestheticism to American Modernism
  19. Part IV: Art and Religion
  20. Chapter 14: Willa Cather’s Sheltering Art
  21. About the Editors and Contributors