Date of Award
12-9-1998
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Robert Lee Lynch, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Kathleen T. Flanagan, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
A. Gordon Van Ness, III, Ph.D.
Abstract
Reacting against Victorian ideal that influenced her childhood, Cather creates numerous gender reversal throughout her fiction. This thesis notes the gender ironies contained within her works to conclude that Cather was herself a liberal, demanding that society’s status quo be eliminated. While America’s political climate did affect Cather’s work, her political ideologies remain difficult to interpret when contrasted with her fiction. Throughout much of her fiction, Cather attempts to raise the social status of certain facets of society and dispels many myths concerning gender.
Recommended Citation
Moore Horne, Sarah Elizabeth, ""That Damned Morality": Willa Cather's Reaction against Victorian Female Roles in O Pioneers! and Tje Song of the Lark" (1998). Theses & Honors Papers. 220.
https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/etd/220
Included in
Literature in English, North America Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons
