CONTENTS

• Introduction
       by Melissa Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds
• Willa Cather in and out of Zane Grey's West
       by John N. Swift
• Thea's "Indian Play" in The Song of the Lark
       by Sarah Clere
• "Jazz Age" Places: Modern Regionalism in Willa Cather's The Professor’s House
       by Kelsey Squire
• Changing Trains: Metaphors of Transfer in Willa Cather
       by Mark A. R. Facknitz
• Chicago's Cliff Dwellers and The Song of the Lark
       by Michelle E. Moore
• Willa Cather and Henry Blake Fuller: More Building Blocks for The Professor's House
       by Richard C. Harris
• Cather's "Office Wives" Stories and Modern Women's Work
       by Amber Harris Leichner
• It's Mr. Reynolds Who Wishes It: Profit and Prestige Shared by Cather and Her Literary Agent
       by Matthew Lavin
• Thea at the Art Institute
       by Julie Olin-Ammentorp
• Art and the Commercial Object as Ekphrastic Subjects in The Song of the Lark and The Professor's House
       by Diane Prenatt
• "The Nude Had Descended the Staircase": Katherine Anne Porter Looks at Willa Cather Looking at Modern Art
       by Janis P. Stout
• "The Cruelty of Physical Things": Picture Writing and Violence in Willa Cather's "The Profile"
       by Joyce Kessler
• "Before Its Romanzas Have Become Street Music": Cather and Verdi's Falstaff, Chicago, 1895
       by John H. Flannigan