| Contents |
Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the historiography of lesbian sexuality / Melissa J. Homestead -- Cather's readers, traditionalism, and modern America / Charles Johanningsmeier -- Time out of place: modernity and the rise of environmentalism in Willa Cather's O pioneers! / Leila C. Nadir -- Contamination, modernity, health, and art in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather / Susan Meyer -- From sentimentality to sex: the circus motif in Willa Cather's writing / Steven B. Shively -- Daughter of a war lost, won, and evaded: Cather and the ambiguities of the Civil War / Janis Stout -- A [slave] girl's life in Virginia before the war: Willa Cather and antebellum nostalgia / John Jacobs -- Cather's Jewett: relationship, influence, and representation / Deborah Carlin -- Willa Cather and the example of Henry James / Elsa Nettels -- Kindred spirits: Willa Cather and Henry James / John J. Murphy --The rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's modernism and the Howellsian prextext / Joseph C. Murphy -- Echoes of Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage in Willa Cather's One of ours / Ann Moseley -- Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virginians: literary prototypes for My mortal enemy / Richard C. Harris -- "One knows it too well to know it well": Willa Cather, A.E. Housman, and A Shropshire lad / Robert Thacker -- Following the Lieder: Cather, Schubert, and Lucy Gayheart / David Porter -- Pompeii and the house of the tragic poet in A lost lady / Matthew Hokom -- Making it new: O pioneers! as modernist bildungsroman / Sarah Stoeckl. |
