Date of Award
5-15-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Audrey Goodman - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Malinda Snow - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Randy Malamud - Committee Member
Abstract
Though her early writing owes much to nineteenth-century American Realism, Willa Cather experiments with male and female literary traditions while finding her own modern literary voice. In the process Cather gives nature an ambivalent role in My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes to the Archbishop. She produces a tension between rivers and gardens, places where nature and culture converge. Like Mary Austin and Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather confronts the boundaries between humans and nature.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1338351
Recommended Citation
Kirkland, Graham, "From Rivers to Gardens: The Ambivalent Role of Nature in My ?ntonia, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes to the Archbishop." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1338351