Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Contexts and critical issues

pp 17-18

1 - Willa Cather as progressive

pp 19-34

2 - The Cather thesis

pp 35-50

3 - Willa Cather’s American modernism

pp 51-65

4 - Willa Cather and the geography of Jewishness

pp 66-85

5 - Willa Cather and sexuality

pp 86-100

6 - Willa Cather and the performing arts

pp 101-115

7 - Willa Cather and the comic sense of self

pp 116-130

8 - Cather and the short story

pp 131-145

9 - Willa Cather in the country of the ill

pp 146-156

Part II - Studies of major works

pp 157-158

10 - Rereading My Ántonia

pp 159-174

11 - Fictions of possession in The Professor’s House

pp 175-190

12 - Catholic expansionism and the politics of depression in Death Comes for the Archbishop

pp 191-204

13 - Willa Cather and “the old story”

pp 205-221

Selected bibliography

pp 222-227

Index

pp 228-229