Willa Cather’s Song of Civilization: Reimagining “Shadows on the Rock”
Throughout her writing, Willa Cather continually asks the question: What allows a civilization to thrive, and for a people to truly live? Not until "Shadows on the Rock," one of her last three novels, does Cather delve most fully into this question. Willa Cather’s tenth novel, Shadows on the Rock, published in 1931, has been largely unappreciated due to negative criticism and a general [...]