CONTENTS

• Introduction: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux
       by ANN MOSELEY, JOHN J. MURPHY, AND ROBERT THACKER
• Prologue: Gifts from the Museum: Catherian Epiphanies in Context
       by JOHN J. MURPHY
• Part I. Beginnings
  • The Compatibility of Art and Religion for Willa Cather: From the Beginning
         by STEVEN B. SHIVELEY
  • Thea in Wonderland: Willa Cather's Revision of the Alice Novels and the Gender Codes of the Western Frontier
         by MICHELLE E. MOORE
  • Àntonia and Hiawatha: Spectacles of the Nation
         by JOSEPH C. MURPHY
• Part 2. Presences
  • Willa Cather, Howard Pyle, and "The Precious Message of Romance"
         by RICHARD C. HARRIS
  • "Then a Great Man in American Art": Willa Cather's Frederic Remington
         by ROBERT THACKER
  • Willa Cather, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and "The Painting of Tomorrow"
         by JAMES A. JAAP
  • From The Song of the Lark to Lucy Gayheart, and Die Walküre to Die Winterreise
         by DAVID PORTER
  • The Trafficking of Mrs. Forrester: Prostitution and Willa Cather's A Lost Lady
         by CHARMION GUTSKE
  • The Outlandish Hands of Fred Demmler: Pittsburgh Prototypes in The Professor's House
         by TIMOTHY W. BINTRIM
  • Translating the Southwest: The 1940 French Edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop
         by MARK J. MADIGAN
• Part 3. Articulation: The Song of the Lark
  • Elements of Modernism in The Song of the Lark
         by ANN MOSELEY
  • "The Earliest Sources of Gladness": Reading the Deep Map of Cather's Southwest
         by DIANE PRENATT
  • Re(con)ceiving Experience: Cognitive Science and Creativity in The Song of the Lark
         by JOSHUA DOLEŽAL
  • Women and Vessels in The Song of the Lark and Shadows on the Rock
         by ANGELA CONRAD
• Epilogue: The Difference that Letters Make: A Meditation on The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
       by ANDREW JEWELL AND JANIS STOUT