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concept-288	none	Outland as Motherland: Maternity and Homosexuality in Willa Cather's The Professor's House*	2007	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5017	161	36	Lying on his death-bed couch within the maternally symbolic attic room, St. Peter falls “out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family,” releasing himself “from consciousness” and returning to mother “Earth,” the “root of the matter” and source of “the original, unmodified Godfrey St. Peter” (239). In any case, the coalescence of maternity and homosexuality in The Professor’s House certainly encourages a conception of St. Peter’s lost intimacy with Tom Outland as a failed attempt to reconfigure mother-son 7 See The Reproduction of Mothering, 79. 9 Peter Nagy unity.	cache/concept-288.pdf	txt/concept-288.txt