... backward U.S. state. Historically accurate and set in the American Southwest in the mid to late 1800s, Archbishop shows us a different time in American history--a time when the Church was sometimes the only link that tied the wild frontier to the slow, but steady, modernization that built this country. Cather's wisely chosen guides for the narrative are two French priests whose missionary zeal ... more assert vehemently that it is not a novel. Myself, I prefer to call it a narrative" (On Writing 12). Cather's preference anticipated an important reformulation of the criticism of fiction: ...

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