CONTENTS

• Introduction: Willa Cather as Icon
       by GUY REYNOLDS
• A Commentary on An Explanation of America
       by ROBERT PINSKY
• What Happens to Criticism When the Artist Becomes an Icon?
       by ELSA NETTELS
• Advertising Cather during the Transition Years (1914–1922)
       by ERIKA HAMILTON
• Willa Cather and Her Public in 1922
       by JANIS P. STOUT
• A Portrait of an Artist as a Cultural Icon: Edward Steichen, Vanity Fair, and Willa Cather
       by MICHAEL SCHUETH
• Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-Month Club
       by MARK J. MADIGAN
• "Two or Three Human Stories": O Pioneers! and the Old Testament
       by JESSICA G. RABIN
• Barbusse's L'enfer: A Source for "Coming, Aphrodite!" and "The Novel Démeublé"
       by RICHARD C. HARRIS
• Recollecting Emotion in Tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Cather's My Àntonia and Lucy Gayheart
       by JONATHON D. GROSS
• "Have I Changed So Much?": Jim Burden, Intertextuality, and the Ending of My Àntonia
       by TIMOTHY C. BLACKBURN
• Shadows on the Rock: Against Interpretation
       by RICHARD H. MILLINGTON
• Cather's Shadows: Solid Rock and Sacred Canopy
       by JOHN J. MURPHY
• Cather's Secular Humanism: Writing Anacoluthon and Shooting Out into the Eternities
       by JOSEPH R. URGO
• Subsequent Reflections on Shadows on the Rock
       by RICHARD H. MILLINGTON, JOHN J. MURPHY, JOSEPH R. URGO
• Cather, Freudianism, and Freud
       by JOHN N. SWIFT
• Cather's Medical Icon: Euclide Auclair, Healing Art, and the Cultivated Physician
       by JOSHUA DOLEZAL
• The Dialectics of Seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh: "Double Birthday" and Urban Allegory
       by JOSEPH C. MURPHY
• Antithetical Icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and the First World War
       by STEVEN TROUT
• Icons and Willa Cather
       by MERRILL MAGUIRE SKAGGS
• "A Critic Who Was Worthy of Her": The Writing of Willa Cather: A Critical Biography
       by ROBERT THACKER
• Contributors