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In Willa Cather and Six Writers from the Great War, James Kirschke traces Willa Cather's inspiration for the character, Tom Outland, in her 1925 novel, The Professor's House. Outland is a brilliant young man from the Southwest who dies as a soldier in the Great War. Most authorities on Willa Cather's work presume that inspiration for Outland arose from a trip Cather made to Southern Colorado in the summer of 1915. James Kirschke shows that some of the young poets of World War I may be a part of that inspiration. This book is therefore also an introduction to six young 'Tom Outlands' who died during WWI: Charles Sorley, Arthur Graeme West, Edwin Vaughan, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Alan Seeger, and Victor Chapman. The book also includes studies on the diary as an art form, of her trip to Mesa Verde in Colorado, and her connection to Victor Chapman's Letters from France and Alan Seeger's family. Co-published with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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An excellent idea.>>>>--Laura Winters
An excellent idea.--Laura Winters
Kirschke provides brief biographies of six promising young writers who could have served as the inspiration for the fictional Tom Outland.--Laura Winters, College of Saint Elizabeth "American Literary Scholarship "
An excellent idea.--Laura Winters, College of Saint Elizabeth
About the Author:
An excellent idea.--Laura Winters
Kirschke provides brief biographies of six promising young writers who could have served as the inspiration for the fictional Tom Outland.--Laura Winters, College of Saint Elizabeth "American Literary Scholarship "
An excellent idea.--Laura Winters, College of Saint Elizabeth
James Kirschke was born in Norfolk, VA but grew up in South Philadelphia. He earned his bachelors degree from LaSalle College, and his masters and Ph.D. degrees in English at Temple University. He is currently an English professor at Villanova University.
In Vietnam during 1966 and 1967, James Kirschke was commander of the mortar platoon of 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, and of a rifle platoon in Hotel Company, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. He was medically retired in 1968.
Kirschke is also the author of "Henry James and Impressionism,"" Willa Cather and Six Writers from the Great War," and the forthcoming biography, "Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816): Author, Statesman, and Man of the World,"
In Vietnam during 1966 and 1967, James Kirschke was commander of the mortar platoon of 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, and of a rifle platoon in Hotel Company, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines. He was medically retired in 1968.
Kirschke is also the author of "Henry James and Impressionism,"" Willa Cather and Six Writers from the Great War," and the forthcoming biography, "Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816): Author, Statesman, and Man of the World,"
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- PublisherUniversity Press of America
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0819179183
- ISBN 13 9780819179180
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages102
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