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Internship sponsored by the Cather Circle, a mentoring network for distinguished UNL women alumnae and students founded by the Alumni Association in 1999.

Seeking outstanding undergraduate woman attending UNL for internship to assist with research and publishing for the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, the electronic Cather Archive, and other programs of the Cather Project. Assist with the following activities: archival and other research on Cather's texts; help with the production of digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship; newsletter production, and coordinating Cather-related events. Respect for detail and accuracy are essential; interest in Cather, plains literature and history, is desirable.

Application to become a member of the Cather Circle is required.

Internship to begin Fall semester 2008. Intern is to work at an hourly rate of $8 up to $2,000 for the semester. Please send or email your resume and a cover letter stating your interest before May 9, 2008, to:

Guy Reynolds
Cather Project Director
337D Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0396
greynolds2@unl.edu

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Andrew Jewell
Editor, Willa Cather Archive
29 Love Library
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-4100
ajewell2@unl.edu

Shadows on the Rock Scholarly Edition Published

By Willa Cather; Historical essay by John J. Murphy and David Stouck; Explanatory notes by John J. Murphy and David Stouck; Textual editing by Frederick M. Link

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Shadows on the Rock, written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her "Catholic" historical novels and reflects her fascination with finding a little piece of France in eastern Canada. Set in the late seventeenth century, the novel centers on the activities of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his young daughter, Cecile. To Auclair's house and shop come trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, the indigent--those seeking cures, a taste of France, or liberation from the corruptions caused there by the excesses of the French court. Set against these fictional characters, historical personages such as Bishop Laval, Count Frontenac, and others contend in the political life of the vast colony.

This edition, which is approved by the Modern Language Association, will be of special importance to Cather scholars. Not only is Cather's mining of historical sources explored in extensive explanatory notes, but a recently discovered reworked draft of the novel has been incorporated into the textual analysis. There is also a generous illustration section with maps of the setting.

John J. Murphy is a professor of English at Brigham Young University, author of My Ántonia: The Road Home, and editor of Critical Essays on Willa Cather. David Stouck, a professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is the author of Willa Cather's Imagination and As for Sinclair Ross: A Biography. Frederick M. Link is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and textual editor of Cather's Obscure Destinies and The Professor's House.