Cather Studies, Volume 10

Anne L. Kaufman teaches mathematics at Milton Academy and is a visiting lecturer in English at Bridgewater State University. Her work has appeared in Western American Literature, Canadian Literature, Western Historical Quarterly, and elsewhere. Richard H. Millington is Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English at Smith College. He is the author of essays on Cather's modernism and of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction, and he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAnne L. Kaufman and Richard H. MillingtonPart 1. Contexts1. Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian SexualityMelissa J. Homestead2. Cather's Readers, Traditionalism, and Modern AmericaCharles Johanningsmeier3. Time Out of Place: Modernity and the Rise of Environmentalism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!Leila C. Nadir4. Contamination, Modernity, Health, and Art in Edith Wharton and Willa CatherSusan Meyer5. From Sentimentality to Sex: The Circus Motif in Willa Cather's WritingSteven B. Shively6. Daughter of a War Lost, Won, and Evaded: Cather and the Ambiguities of the Civil WarJanis Stout7. A [Slave] Girl's Life in Virginia before the War: Willa Cather and Antebellum NostalgiaJohn JacobsPart 2. Precursors and Influences8. Cather's Jewett: Relationship, Influence, and RepresentationDeborah Carlin9. Willa Cather and the Example of Henry JamesElsa Nettels10. Kindred Spirits: Willa Cather and Henry JamesJohn J. Murphy11. The Rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's Modernism and the Howellsian PretextJoseph C. Murphy12. Echoes of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage in Willa Cather's One of OursAnn Moseley13. Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virginians: Literary Prototypes for My Mortal EnemyRichard C. Harris14. "One Knows It Too Well to Know It Well": Willa Cather, A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire LadRobert Thacker15. Following the Lieder: Cather, Schubert, and Lucy GayheartDavid Porter16. Pompeii and the House of the Tragic Poet in A Lost LadyMatthew Hokom17. Making It New: O Pioneers! as Modernist BildungsromanSarah StoecklContributorsIndex

"A valuable contribution to Cather studies."-CHOICE "Cather lovers in general, and especially those intrigued by Cather biography, will enjoy the ambitious plunge into the archive by many of these authors."-Kristen R. Egan, Western American Literature "A major contribution to Cather scholarship."-Peter Betjemann, American Literary Realism