O Pioneers! (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: 1880-1910
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Regional fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Sexism, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Midwest, Brothers and sisters, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Farms, farmers, or farming, Adultery, Sweden or Swedish people, Frontier or pioneer life, Nebraska, Land settlement, Grasslands
- Locales: Hanover, NE
Places Discussed
Hanover. Fictional southern Nebraska town on a windblown plain closely modeled on Cather’s Nebraska hometown of Red Cloud, that provides a focal point for this novel. Cather spent her formative years on Nebraska’s plains. Although she moved away from Nebraska in 1896 to pursue careers in journalism and writing, she never lost her love of the plains, on which she set six of her novels. She wrote lyrically about the beauty of its plains and the challenges of the simple people who struggled to survive in an inhospitable climate.
Bergson farm. Nebraska...
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