{"product_id":"edith-wharton-willa-cather-and-the-place-of-culture-paperback-softback-9781496244604","title":"Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496244604","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEdith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulie Olin-Ammentorp (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496244604\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages, 14 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book makes a compelling and convincing argument on the meaning of beauty and place in the lives and work of Wharton and Cather and contributes to the fields of literary studies and especially comparative studies. Olin-Ammentorp's \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for all who are invested in the work of American women writers.\"-Emily Orlando, \u003ci\u003eLegacy: A Journal of American Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e] demonstrate[s] exemplary scholarship in [the] blending of close literary analysis with historical and biographical insights. . . . Olin-Ammentorp break[s] new ground in the critical conceptualization of Cather in particular.”-Catherine Morley, \u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The parallel careers and lives Olin-Ammentorp explores here shape a stunning synthesis of the biographical, the cultural, and the literary. Wharton and Cather, together here, capture the Modernist moment. While the two never met, their writing defined, this book well shows, the place of culture through the culture of place.”-Robert Thacker, coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather Review \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e dispels oversimplifications that have positioned Cather and Wharton as opposites. In rejecting such traditional characterizations of the two, Julie Olin-Ammentorp beautifully demonstrates that they are in fact comparable and complementary. If the book stopped here it would be truly valuable, but it goes further, exploring concepts such as place, culture, home, and even that most elusive of ideas, beauty. . . . Olin-Ammentorp develops provocative rereadings of texts we thought were familiar.”-Janis Stout, author of \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather: The Writer and Her World \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCather Among the Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A splendid meditation on place, culture, and beauty. Olin-Ammentorp takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the lives and works of two beloved American authors, demonstrating that, although they may seem to inhabit different worlds, in fact the two share many crucial concerns. With a particularly sensitive attention to language, the book is filled with rich insights and nuanced readings of both Wharton and Cather, and it builds a convincing argument about the centrality of beauty and of place in the lives and writings of both.”-Irene Goldman-Price, editor of \u003ci\u003eMy Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of Edith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a game changer, opening up the ways we look at two of the most famous American writers (male or female) of the early twentieth century. Olin-Ammentorp combines a masterly grasp of the big picture alongside the nuance and detail of close analysis and invites new ways of thinking about the writers’ interconnectedness, their sense of place, geography, culture, beauty, and language. . . . [This] will be a touchstone reference text for a whole new generation of scholars.”-Laura Rattray, author of \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“That Wharton and Cather lived lives seemingly so different yet so profoundly parallel makes for an endlessly compelling analysis. This work also speaks more broadly to the careers and global interests of women writers whose experiences of place, travel, geography, nationality, and postwar identities shaped their careers in ways distinctive to the early twentieth century. . . . Clearly the product of deep knowledge, this work promises to contribute to comparative studies; to studies that focus on geography, place, and travel; and to literary interpretations of both authors’ works.”-Melanie Dawson, author of \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age and past president of the Edith Wharton Society\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEdith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton’s \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, and Cather’s \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy \u0026amp;Aacute;ntonia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet despite their perennial popularity and their status as major American novelists, Wharton (1862–1937) and Cather (1873–1947) have rarely been studied together. Indeed, Wharton is seen as “our literary aristocrat,” an author who chronicles the lives of the East Coast, Europe-bound elite, while Cather is considered a prairie populist who describes the lives of rugged Western pioneers. But these depictions neglect the striking and important ways the works of these two authors intersect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first comparative study of Wharton and Cather in more than thirty years, this book reveals Wharton’s and Cather’s parallel experiences of dislocation, their relationship to each other as writers, and the profound similarities in their theories of fiction. Julie Olin-Ammentorp explores the importance of literary and geographic place in their lives and works, including the role of New York City, the American West, France, and travel. In doing so she reveals the two authors’ shared concern about the culture of place and the place of culture in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Wharton, Cather, Place, and Culture\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Contexts and Intersections\u003cbr\u003e 1. The “\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Aristocrat”\u003cbr\u003e and the Plainspoken Pioneer\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Land of Letters, the Kingdom of Art\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Place of Culture\u003cbr\u003e 3. New York City: Beauty, Business, and Hothouse Flowers\u003cbr\u003e 4. The West: Provinciality, Vitality, and the “\u003cbr\u003eReal”\u003cbr\u003e America\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Idea of France\u003cbr\u003e 6. Questions of Travel and Home\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702058479896,"sku":"9781496244604","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/edith-wharton-willa-cather-and-the-place-of-culture-paperback-softback-9781496244604","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}