Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation
- ISBN-10
- 1571139974
- ISBN-13
- 9781571139979
- Series
- Willa Cather
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Literary Criticism in Perspect
- Author
- Kelsey Squire
Description
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.
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