Willa Cather : the emerging voice / Sharon O'Brien. by O'Brien, Sharon

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.. Hard Cover. xvi, 464 p., [24] p. of plates : illus., ports. , index, 24 cm."O'Brien asks two central questions: How did Cather pass through a stage of male identification when she adopted male dress and posed as "William Cather" to become the first woman writer who created the first strong, autonomous and successful women heroes in American literature? How did she move from aliterary apprenticeship she later associated with Jamesian imitation and inauthentic speech to a literary maturity in which she took "the road home" to her Nebraska past?" Stock# 43,848. Vg gift inscription on front fly / dj good+, tear at hinge.