Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl Annotated written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave.
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel opens on a dinner quarrel. Sapphira Colbert has announced to her husband, Henry, her intention of selling a slave girl, Nancy, to neighbors. Henry refuses to countersign the necessary documents, although the slaves belong legally to Sapphira. "We don't sell our slaves!" is Henry's blunt reply. Sapphira, portrayed as a particularly strong-minded woman, begins to devise other means to rid herself of Nancy, who has lost favor (and an easy job as light maid) because of a perceived favoritism paid to the lovely girl by Sapphira's husband, a favoritism that Sapphira feels (wrongly) is sexual. Her determination to sell Nancy does not sit well with her daughter, Rachel Blake. Determined to have her way, Sapphira comes up with a plan to force Henry to agree to let Nancy go. Inviting Henry's lecherous nephew, Martin Colbert, to come stay with them, Sapphira hopes to compromise Nancy's morals, a situation that would make Nancy's continued place at the Colberts' unthinkable, according to the slaveholding ethos. When Martin arrives, it looks as though the ploy will work. Sapphira is charmed by the younger man's flatteries and bonhomie. The hardworking Henry, however, is not, and he questions Sapphira when Martin's stay becomes obviously prolonged.
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira Colbert, the wife of a Virginian mill owner in the 1850s, launches persecution of Nancy, a slave girl in her household, when she suspects her husband is interested in Nancy.
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery—conflicts in which Cather’s family members were deeply involved, both as slave owners and as opponents of slavery. Cather, at five years old, appears as a character in an unprecedented first-person epilogue. Tapping her earliest memories, Cather powerfully and sparely renders a Virginia world that is simultaneously beautiful and, as she said, “terrible.” The historical essay and explanatory notes explore the novel’s grounding in family, local, and national history; show how southern cultures continually shaped Cather’s life and work, culminating with this novel; and trace the progress of Cather’s research and composition during years of grief and loss that she described as the worst of her life. More early drafts, including manuscript fragments, are available for Sapphira and the Slave Girl than for any other Cather novel, and the revealing textual essay draws on this rich resource to provide new insights into Cather’s composition process.
Download or read book Sapphira and the slave girl written by Willa Sibert Cather and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL NO ONE CAN BUILD HIS SECURITY UPON THE NOBLENESS OF ANOTHER PERSON written by WILLA SIBERT CATHER. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Lucy Dell McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Beyond Words Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South.Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira's daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother's increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather's narrative art and psychological insight.
Download or read book Cather Studies Volume 12 written by Cather Studies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions. The essays in this volume are informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods and by the recent publication of Cather’s correspondence. The collection begins by exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low cultures, including Cather’s use of “racialized vernacular” in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates how historical research, often focusing on local features in Cather’s fiction, contributes to our understanding of American culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and an examination of Cather’s use of ancient philosophy in The Professor’s House. Together the essays reassess Cather’s lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
Download or read book The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl Illustrated written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, - the story of Sapphira, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a young slave. The book also presents a frank and honest portrait of pre-Civil War Virginia and the lives of Sapphira's slaves.
Download or read book Sapphira written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts, We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. Also in books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. We use state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table. At noon, the dinner hour, he was often detained down at the mill. His place was set for him; he might come, or he might send one of the mill-hands to bring him a tray from the kitchen. The Mistress was served promptly. She never questioned as to his whereabouts.
Download or read book Willa Cather s My ntonia written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather s My Antonia, a nostalgic novel about an earlier America, portrays the harmonies and disharmonies of the human world and the world of nature. This new edition gathers together some of the best criticism available on the text.
Download or read book Willa Cather s Ecological Imagination written by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cather?s unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cather?s close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Cather?s novels and short stories are deeply grounded in place, literary critics are only now considering how place functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues through her writing. ø These essays reintroduce us to a Cather who is profoundly identified with the places that shaped her and that she wrote about: Glen A. Love offers an interdisciplinary reading of The Professor?s House that is scientifically oriented; Joseph Urgo argues that My ?ntonia models a preservationist aesthetic in which landscape and memory are inextricably entangled; Thomas J. Lyon posits that Cather had a living sense of the biotic community and used nature as the standard of excellence for human endeavors; and Jan Goggans considers the ways that My ?ntonia shifts from nativism toward a ?flexible notion of place-based community.?
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl New Edition written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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