Alexander's Bridge

Willa Cather

ISBN 10: 0803211325 / ISBN 13: 9780803211322

Edité par Nebraska Jul 2007, 2007

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Neuware - Alexander's Bridge (1912), Willa Cather's first novel, tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between duty to his career and wife, and his passion for the Irish actress Hilda Burgoyne. In spare but often searing prose, Cather's taut novella traces a mid-life crisis of self-doubt and disappointment that ends in a spectacular catastrophe. Cather's portraits of indomitable women on the Nebraska frontier in the novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia are well-known, but Alexander's Bridge shows her working in another, equally important mode, using urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyse America's emergence as an international industrial power at the turn of the twentieth century. Both anxious and celebratory, Alexander's Bridge anticipates The Great Gatsby in trying to reckon with the social and emotional costs of a new era in American life.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Alexander's Bridge
• Éditeur: Nebraska Jul 2007
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803211325
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803211322
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 161 H x 28 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 28 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 635 grammes

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Synopsis

Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly restless and discontented, so much so that while in London he recklessly reignites a love affair with the sweetheart of his youth, the Irish actress Hilda Borgoyne. Although the tryst allows Alexander to recapture an element that has been missing from his pedestrian life, the relationship torments his sense of morality and eventually proves disastrous. Alexander's Bridge explores the demands of Gilded Age society on the individual, as well as the capacity of the individual to violate his own standards of integrity. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition provides an illuminating new framework for Cather's debut novel. The novel is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information now available, complete with illustrations and maps.

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens. Frederick M. Link is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the textual editor of One of Ours, Obscure Destinies, and Shadows on the Rock.