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

 - Lincoln :  University of Nebraska Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Cather Studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803277267 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Childhood and youth.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Cather, Willa.<br/>Literature and society.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3505  / .W555 2015