CONTENTS

• Introduction: Willa Cather and the Arts
       by Guy J. Reynolds
• “A Lot of Things”: The Value of the Vernacular in Shadows on the Rock
       by Diane Prenatt
• “Down by de Canebrake”: Willa Cather, Sterling A. Brown, and the Racialized Vernacular
       by Janis Stout
• The Singer as Artist: Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Artist’s Voice
       by Sarah L. Young
• Cather’s Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late Fiction
       by John H. Flannigan
• Memory and Image: Graphemics for a New Frontier Icon in My Ántonia
       by Joyce Kessler
• “Paul’s Case” and Pittsburgh: Industry and Art in the Great Manufacturing Town
       by James A. Jaap
• Under the White Mulberry Tree: Food and Artistry in Cather’s Orchards
       by Stephanie Tsank
• “The Passionless Bride”: Love, Loss, and Lucretius in The Professor’s House
       by Matthew Hokum
• Advertising Willa Cather as Product
       by Erika K. Hamilton