The imaginative claims of the artist in Willa Cather's fiction: "possession granted by a different lease"

Abstract

Redefining Willa Cather's feminism, Peck portrays Cather as a woman who self-consciously sets out to write within a male literary tradition that she identified as Emersonian. Peck also shows that Cather's theory of stylistic economy and simplicity was motivated by a desire to reorganize the elements of the artistic stage exclusively around her own romantic ego.