CONTENTS

• Introduction
       by Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan
• Part I. East Meets West
  • Prologue: Becoming "Miss Cather from Pittsburgh"
         by Ann Romines
  • Bicycles and Freedom in Red Cloud and Pittsbugh: Willa Cather's Early Transformations of Place and Gender in "Tommy, the Unsentimental"
         by Daryl W. Palmer
  • Where Pagodas Rise on Every Hill: Romance as Resistance in "A Son of the Celestial"
         by Michael Gorman
  • The Boxer Rebellion, Pittsburgh's Missionary Crisis, and "The Conversion of Sum Loo"
         by Timothy W. Bintrim
• Part 2. Class Action: Retrying "Paul's Case"
  • Growing Pains: The City behind Cather's Pittsburch Classroom
         by Mary Ruth Ryder
  • Big Steel and Class Consciousness in "Paul's Case"
         by Charmion Gustke
  • "The Most Exciting Attractions Are between Two Opposites That Never Meet": Willa Cather and Andy Warhol
         by Todd Richardson
• Part 3. Friendships, Literary and Musical
  • Willa Cather as Translator: The Pittsburch "French Soirées"
         by Diane Prenatt
  • A Collegial Friendship: Willa Cather and Ethel Herr Litchfield
         by John H. Flannigan
  • Grave and God-Free: Ethelbert Nevin as a Pivotal Historical Source in "The Professor's Commencement" and The Professor's House
         by Kimberly Vanderlaan
• Part 4. Later Stories
  • Im Working, I'm Working": The Industrious Artist of Pittsburgh in Willa Cather's The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Publications
         by Kelsey Squire
  • Venetian Window: Pittsburgh Glass and Modernist Community in "Double Birthday"
         by Joseph C. Murphy
  • Cather's Pittsburgh and the Alchemy of Social Class
         by Angela Conrad
• Epilogue: Why Willa Cather? A Retrospective
       by John J. Murphy