《我安东尼亚》生态女性主义的研究.pdf

2 really a time of freedom. But when entering adolescence, children became socialized. The boys were taught the masculine virtues, such as bravery and independence, while girls were taught the feminine virtues, such as submi ssiveness and passivity. Cather manifested her defiance against this social convention through her behaviors. Cather graduated from Red Cloud High School in 1890 and moved on to Lincoln, Nebraska to study at the University of Nebr aska where she became the editor of the school magazine and wrote reviews for the Lincoln pa pers. Gradually, she ga ve up her pursuit of a medical career and turned to writing. After gr aduation from university, she returned to Red Cloud and in 1896, moved to Pittsburgh to write for several magazines and lived there until 1906. During this period, she published in her first collection, the Troll Garden (1905), arousing . McClure’s interest, who later hired her as the managing editor for the McClure’s Magazine . In 1908, she met Sara Orne Jewett, novelist and short story writer with The Country of the Pointed Firs as her representative work. Jewett ha d an enduring influence on Cather and was ranked by the latter with Ma rk Twain and Henry James. Sh e helped Cather in leaving McClure’s , and fashioning the literary self she woul d later call the “real me”(qtd. in O’Brien, 1987: 335). Jewett obviously noticed her young friend’s gift and warned her that the magazine work would e barrier to the development of her literary talent. “You have to make a way of your own,” she said, “you must find your own quiet centr e of life, and write from that to the world… in short, you must wr ite to the human heart.”(qtd. in O’Brien, 1987: 345-6) Under the encouragement of Jewett, Cath er left the magazine in 1911 and wrote her transitional work Alexander’s Bridge , which ended her apprenticeship to her hero Henry James and began to speak in her own voice. Th e 1910s saw Cather’s literary breakthro