Willa Cather and the nineteenth century /edited by Anne L. Kaufman and Richard H. Millington.

"Volume of essays exploring how nineteenth-century culture shaped Willa Cather's childhood, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to the deeply held values present in her fiction"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Contexts; 1. Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality; 2. Cather's Readers, Traditionalism, and Modern America; 3. Time Out of Place: Modernity and the Rise of Environmentalism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!; 4. Contamination, Modernity, Health, and Art in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather; 6. Daughter of a War Lost, Won, and Evaded: Cather and the Ambiguities of the Civil War; 7. A [Slave] Girl's Life in Virginia before the War:Willa Cather and Antebellum Nostalgia

Part 2. Precursors and Influences8. Cather's Jewett: Relationship, Influence,and Representation; 9. Willa Cather and the Example of Henry James; 10. Kindred Spirits: Willa Cather and Henry James; 11. The Rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's Modernism and the Howellsian Pretext; 12. Echoes of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Couragein Willa Cather's One of Ours; 13. Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virginians: Literary Prototypes for My Mortal Enemy; 14. "One Knows It Too Well to Know It Well": Willa Cather, A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad

15. Following the Lieder: Cather, Schubert, and Lucy Gayheart16. Pompeii and the House of the Tragic Poet in A Lost Lady; 17. Making It New: O Pioneers! as Modernist Bildungsroman; Contributors; Index

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