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- catalog abstract ""Success is never so interesting as struggle," Willa Cather wrote in 1932, but the idea of success apparently "interested" Willa Cather a good deal during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it did many of her contemporaries. Redefining the American Dream examines Cather's interest throughout her life in the version(s) of success that pervaded American culture and that were (and often still are) identified as the American Dream. Sally Peltier Harvey studies the forces in America that shaped Cather's attitudes about success as Cather was growing up and the forces that reshaped her attitudes during the years that Cather wrote her novels, causing her to reassess the relationship between material success, personal fulfillment, individual autonomy, and commitment to community. Harvey traces Cather's shifting views and her struggle to redefine the American Dream rather than abandon it, as many of her contemporaries did. Cather's efforts in this regard involved a repeated confrontation with the concepts of individualism and community. Cather in her novels moves away from the traditional pairing of self-fulfillment and material success, so common in nineteenth-century thought - a pairing that valorized individualism and viewed competition as a natural law. Cather seems to work toward a redefinition of success that sees a fulfilled self grounded in community, though still struggling to balance community's demands and the individual's needs. What begins for Cather as a troubled ambivalence about the success ethic in America becomes in her later novels an acceptance - even a celebration - of the tension between individual and community that underlies the struggle toward success.".
- catalog contributor b7430711.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Success is never so interesting as struggle," Willa Cather wrote in 1932, but the idea of success apparently "interested" Willa Cather a good deal during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it did many of her contemporaries. Redefining the American Dream examines Cather's interest throughout her life in the version(s) of success that pervaded American culture and that were (and often still are) identified as the American Dream. Sally Peltier Harvey studies the forces in America that shaped Cather's attitudes about success as Cather was growing up and the forces that reshaped her attitudes during the years that Cather wrote her novels, causing her to reassess the relationship between material success, personal fulfillment, individual autonomy, and commitment to community. Harvey traces Cather's shifting views and her struggle to redefine the American Dream rather than abandon it, as many of her contemporaries did. Cather's efforts in this regard involved a repeated confrontation with the concepts of individualism and community. Cather in her novels moves away from the traditional pairing of self-fulfillment and material success, so common in nineteenth-century thought - a pairing that valorized individualism and viewed competition as a natural law. Cather seems to work toward a redefinition of success that sees a fulfilled self grounded in community, though still struggling to balance community's demands and the individual's needs. What begins for Cather as a troubled ambivalence about the success ethic in America becomes in her later novels an acceptance - even a celebration - of the tension between individual and community that underlies the struggle toward success.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.".
- catalog description "Self, community, and success -- Charting a new path to fulfillment : Alexander's bridge ; O pioneers ; The song of the lark ; My Ántonia -- Crises of self and a glimmer of hope : One of ours ; A lost lady ; The professor's house ; My mortal enemy -- Fulfillment through tradition and family : Death comes for the Archbishop ; Shadows on the rock ; "Neighbour Rosicky" and "Old Mrs. Harris" -- Facing America's failed dream : Lucy Gayheart ; Sapphira and the slave girl -- "Creative tension."".
- catalog extent "x, 190 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Redefining the American dream.".
- catalog identifier "0838635571 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Redefining the American dream.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Redefining the American dream.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS3505.A87 Z66 1994".
- catalog subject "Success in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Self, community, and success -- Charting a new path to fulfillment : Alexander's bridge ; O pioneers ; The song of the lark ; My Ántonia -- Crises of self and a glimmer of hope : One of ours ; A lost lady ; The professor's house ; My mortal enemy -- Fulfillment through tradition and family : Death comes for the Archbishop ; Shadows on the rock ; "Neighbour Rosicky" and "Old Mrs. Harris" -- Facing America's failed dream : Lucy Gayheart ; Sapphira and the slave girl -- "Creative tension."".
- catalog title "Redefining the American dream : the novels of Willa Cather / Sally Peltier Harvey.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".