Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism

This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices."

Willa Cather and Aestheticism
- 2012-06-14
- 256 pages
- Ebook
- Fairleigh Dickinson

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