Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather's position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather's position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. The first section takes up Cather's beginnings with her late nineteenth-century cultural influences. The second section explores a range of discernible direct connections with contemporary artists (Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Blumenschein) and others who figured in the making of her texts. The third section focuses on The Song of the Lark, a novel that confirms Cather's shift westward and elaborates her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent availability of these letters has transformed Cather studies. Altogether, these essays detail Cather's shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions.

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Cover 1
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
List of Illustrations 10
Introduction: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux 12
Prologue: Gifts from the Museum: Catherian Epiphanies in Context 24
Part 1. Beginnings 40
1. The Compatibility of Art and Religion for Willa Cather: From the Beginning 42
2. Thea in Wonderland: Willa Cather’s Revision of the Alice Novels and the Gender Codes of the Western Frontier 66
3. Ántonia and Hiawatha: Spectacles of the Nation 87
Part 2. Presences 114
4. Willa Cather, Howard Pyle, and “The Precious Message of Romance” 116
5. “Then a Great Man in American Art”: Willa Cather’s Frederic Remington 136
6. Willa Cather, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and “The Painting of Tomorrow” 155
7. From The Song of the Lark to Lucy Gayheart, and Die Walküre to Die Winterreise 172
8. The Trafficking of Mrs. Forrester: Prostitution and Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady 193
9. The Outlandish Hands of Fred Demmler: Pittsburgh Prototypes in The Professor’s House 211
10. Translating the Southwest: The 1940 French Edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop 237
Part 3. Articulation: The Song of the Lark 250
11. Elements of Modernism in The Song of the Lark 252
12. “The Earliest Sources of Gladness”: Reading the Deep Map of Cather’s Southwest 276
13. Re(con)ceiving Experience: Cognitive Science and Creativity in The Song of the Lark 294
14. Women and Vessels in The Song of the Lark and Shadows on the Rock 312
Epilogue: The Difference That Letters Make: A Meditation on The Selected Letters of Willa Cather 326
Contributors 350
Index 356

The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences - theological, aesthetic, even gastronomical - and examines her as tourist and traveller cautiously yet assiduously exploring a diverse range of places, ethnicities, and professions.

2025-10-27