The Professor’s House (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: A few years after World War I
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Places Discussed
Professor’s old house. Located adjacent to the college campus at which the professor teaches, the old, oddly built but simple house of Professor St. Peter has for more than two decades been the site of his marital, family, scholarly, and artistic happiness. It is here that he tends his French- influenced garden, a testimony to his preference for the aesthetic superiority of long-established cultures. In this old house, also, is the attic room, spartan in furnishings and unheated, but the location of the professor’s work on his great scholarly and artistic...
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