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This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter
to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer
the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival,
diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public
theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and
his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in
English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of
humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing
Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to
advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each
man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative
success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to
England.
This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter
to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer
the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival,
diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public
theaters of London. At the heart of every chapter, Shakespeare and
his contemporaries are seen questioning the status of writing in
English, what it can and cannot accomplish under the influence of
humanism, capitalism, and early modern science. The phrase 'Writing
Russia' stands for the way these English writers attempted to
advance themselves by conjuring up versions of Russian life. Each
man wrote out of a joint-stock arrangement, and each man's relative
success and failure tells us much about the way Russia mattered to
England.
From the girl in Red Cloud, who oversaw the construction of a
miniature town called Sandy Point in her backyard, to the New Woman
on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse in
Lincoln newspapers, to the aspiring novelist in New York City,
committed to creation and career, Daryl W. Palmer's ground-breaking
literary biography offers a provocative new look at Willa Cather's
evolution as a writer. Willa Cather has long been admired for O
Pioneers! (1913), Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia
(1918)—the "prairie novels" about the lives of early Nebraska
pioneers that launched her career. Thanks in part to these
masterpieces, she is often viewed as a representative of pioneer
life on the Great Plains, a controversial innovator in American
modernism, and a compelling figure in the literary history of LGBTQ
America. A century later, scholars acknowledge Cather's place in
the canon of American literature and continue to explore her
relationship with the West. Drawing on original archival research
and paying unprecedented attention to the Cather's early short
stories, Palmer demonstrates that the relationship with Nebraska in
the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than critics
and scholars thought. Readers will encounter a surprisingly bold
young author whose youth in Nebraska was a kind of laboratory for
her future writing career. Becoming Willa Cather changes the way we
think about Cather, a brilliant and ambitious author who embraced
experimentation in life and art, intent on reimagining the American
West.
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