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Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses
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This chapter introduces an account of Willa Cather framed by approaches drawn from Body Studies, and specifically that area of cultural studies focused on the history of the senses. Cather is juxtaposed against such figures as the public intellectual Randolph Bourne and the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. The chapter also deploys and then inflects the concept of the ‘habitus’ to explore the ways in which Cather’s fiction represents distinctive cultures and ways of bodily being or embodiment.
Title: Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses
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This chapter introduces an account of Willa Cather framed by approaches drawn from Body Studies, and specifically that area of cultural studies focused on the history of the senses.
Cather is juxtaposed against such figures as the public intellectual Randolph Bourne and the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.
The chapter also deploys and then inflects the concept of the ‘habitus’ to explore the ways in which Cather’s fiction represents distinctive cultures and ways of bodily being or embodiment.
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