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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462194403321

Autore

Cather Willa <1873-1947.>

Titolo

The song of the lark [[electronic resource] /] / Willa Cather ; historical essay and explanatory notes by Ann Moseley ; textual essay and editing by Kari A. Ronning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-55083-0

9786613863287

0-8032-4472-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (977 p.)

Collana

The Willa Cather scholarly edition

Altri autori (Persone)

MoseleyAnn

RonningKari <1949->

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Women singers

Children of clergy

Swedish Americans

Young women

Opera

Electronic books.

Chicago (Ill.) Fiction

Colorado Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- The song of the lark -- Acknowledgments -- Historical apparatus: -- Historical essay -- Preface to the 1932 Jonathan Cape edition -- Illustrations following page -- Explanatory notes -- Textual apparatus -- Textual essay -- Emendations -- Notes on emendations -- Table of rejected substantives -- Word division.

Sommario/riassunto

Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg. In creating Thea's character, Cather was inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, although Thea's early life also has much in common with Cather's own.Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea's long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone,



Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the Metropolitan Opera House. As she makes her own way in the world from an unlikely background, Thea d