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'Important, Responsible Work': Willa Cather's Office Stories and her Necessary Editorial Career
Ist Teil von
Studies in American fiction, 2008-09, Vol.36 (2), p.177-196
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The work of editing the magazine itself is Uke mental arithmetic, the interesting people she meets are seen from a distance, as from a train; the excitement of the work is exhausting rather than stimulating, affecting her as alcohol does men's brains, puUing energy from her like power leaking from a broken circuit. When we read Jewett's letters as simply cheering Cather on to give up her day job, we miss how intrigued and drawn Jewett was by Cather's editorial work, which was far from Jewett's own experience and that of most women of her generation.\n But we might equaUy look to the two-dimensional space that was part of her daüy work life to re-imagine this structure not as architecture, a window opening, but rather as page layout in a magazine.