CONTENTS

• Introduction
       by ANNE L. KAUFMAN AND RICHARD H. MILLINGTON
• Part I. Contexts
  • Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality
         by MELISSA J. HOMESTEAD
  • Cather's Readers, Traditionalism, and Modern America
         by CHARLES JOHANNINGSMEIER
  • Time Out of Place: Modernity and the Rise of Environmentalism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
         by LEILA C. NADIR
  • Contamination, Modernity, Health, and Art in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
         by SUSAN MEYER
  • From Sentimentality to Sex: The Circus Motif in Willa Cather's Writing
         by STEVEN B. SHIVELY
  • Daughter of a War Lost, Won, and Evaded: Cather and the Ambiguities of the Civil War
         by JANIS STOUT
  • A [Slave] Girl's Life in Virginia before the War: Willa Cather and Antebellum Nostalgia
         by JOHN JACOBS
• Part 2. Precursors and Influences
  • Cather's Jewett: Relationship, Influence, and Representation
         by DEBORAH CARLIN
  • Willa Cather and the Example of Henry James
         by ELSA NETTELS
  • Kindred Spirits: Willa Cather and Henry James
         by JOHN J. MURPHY
  • The Rise of Godfrey St. Peter: Cather's Modernism and the Howellsian Pretext
         by JOSEPH C. MURPHY
  • Echoes of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage in Willa Cather's One of Ours
         by ANN MOSELEY
  • Thackeray's Henry Esmond and The Virgians: Literary Prototypes for My Mortal Enemy
         by RICHARD C. HARRIS
  • "One Knows It Too Well to Know It Well": Willa Cather, A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad
         by ROBERT THACKER
  • Following the Lieder: Cather, Shubert, and Lucy Gayheart
         by DAVID PORTER
  • Pompeii and the House of the Tragic Poet in A Lost Lady
         by MATTHEW HOKOM
  • Making It New: O Pioneers! as Modernist Bildungsroman
         by SARAH STOECKL