![]() ![]() Peattie to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. "Criticism" spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Antonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included. ![]() Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. "Contexts and Backgrounds" is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel's central themes: "Autobiographical and Biographical Writings," "Letters," and "Americanization and Immigration." Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, and introduction that gives readers an historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel (1918). Antonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. Summary: "Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. ![]()
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