CONTENTS

• Introduction
       by Susan J. Rosowski
• Nature and Human Nature: Interdisciplinary Convergences on Cather's Blue Mesa
       by Glen A. Love
• A Guided Tour of Ecocriticism, with Excursions to Catherland
       by Cheryll Glotfelty
• My Ántonia and the National Parks Movement
       by Joseph Urgo
• Biocentric, Homocentric, and Theocentric Environmentalism in O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop
       by Patrick K. Dooley
• Willa Cather: The Plow and the Pen
       by Joseph W. Meeker
• Willa Cather, Learner
       by Thomas J. Lyon
• The Comic Form of Willa Cather's Art: An Ecocritical Reading
       by Susan J. Rosowski
• The Observant Eye, the Art of Illustration, and Willa Cather's My Ántonia
       by Janis P. Stout
• Social (Re)Visioning in the Fields of My Ántonia
       by Jan Goggans
• Modernist Space: Willa Cather's Environmental Imagination in Context
       by Guy Reynolds
• Wagner, Place, and the Growth of Pessimism in the Fiction of Willa Cather
       by Philip Kennicott
• Willa Cather's Great Emersonian Environmental Quartet
       by Merrill Maguire Skaggs
• The Creative Ecology of Walnut Canyon: From the Sinagua to Thea Kronborg
       by Ann Moseley
• Unmasking Willa Cather's "Mortal Enemy"
       by Charles Johanningsmeier
• Admiring and Remembering: The Problem of Virginia
       by Ann Romines
• Character, Compromise, and Idealism in Willa Cather's Gardens
       by Mark A. R. Facknitz
• Contributors