The Professor's House (Hardcover, Scholarly Edition)

The scholarly edition of "The Professor's House" incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars.

Written in 1925, when she was fifty-two years old, "The Professor's House" was Cather's seventh novel. Cather explained that in this novel she had attempted two structural experiments. The first experiment she took from the practice of early French and Spanish novelists of inserting a "nouvelle into the roman," hence the first-person "Tom Outland's Story" wedged between the other two parts of the novel. Second, she compared the novel's structure to a sonata form in music, with the center section in significant contrast to the surrounding sections

Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Willa Cather Scholarly Edition
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	September 2002
Authors:	Willa Cather
Editors:	Frederick M Link
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 47mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
Pages:	589
Edition:	Scholarly Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-1428-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8032-1428-6
Barcode:	9780803214286

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