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edited by Merrill Maguire SkaggsPublication Details
BookFairleigh Dickinson University Press2000Availability
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- "This first facts established in Willa Cather’s New York are those concerning Cather’s familiarity with the city scene before she moved into it, and the importance of locations she moved through daily, once she arrived. Among those locations, the centrally important ones were where she first lived, in Washington Square, and where she first worked, at McClure’s Magazine. Both of these sites are replicated in her fiction. But she doesn’t arrive in them as a tabula rasa. She had been interested in medicine from her adolescence, as she continued to be until she died. That interest infuses her cityscapes from her earlier stories."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
- Pt. I. Geographical City and Home Town. From Cornfield to the Big Apple Orchard: New York as School for Cather and Her Critics / John J. Murphy. Young Willa Cather and the Road to Cos Cob / Merrill Maguire Skaggs. Willa Cather’s Political Apprenticeship at McClure’s Magazine / Joseph R. Urgo. "Behind the Singer Towar": A Transatlantic Tale / Robert K. Miller. Willa Cather and Modern Medicine / Jo Ann Middleton
- Pt. II. Art Capital of the World. Morality and the Naked Lady / Cynthia Griffin Wolff. In the City of New York: Two Artists at Work / Kathryn H. Faber. Cather, Fremstad, and Wagner / Sherrill Harbison. Lucy Gayheart and Schubert / Gretel D. Weiss. Willa Cather and Leon Bakst: Her Portraitist Who Was Designer to Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet / Evelyn Haller
- Pt. III. City Contacts and Literary Connections. Throw Out the Furniture, Rip Out the Curtains: Cather’s Whitman and Whitman’s Cather / Gloria Rojas. Willa Cather and Mark Twain: Yours Truly, Jim Burden / Robert C. Comeau. Pernicious Contact: Willa Cather and the Problem of Literary Sisterhood / Deborah Lindsay Williams. Meeting in New York: Willa Cather and Sigrid Undset / Mona Pers. Exclusion as Adventure: Willa Cather and Postmodernism / Laura Winters
- Pt. IV. Urban Perspectives. Sapphira and the City / Ann Romines. City Consciousness: A Comparison of Cather’s The Song of the Lark and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie / Heather Stewart Armstrong. Like a Rose Among Thorns: Ethnicity, Demography, and Otherness in Willa Cather’s "Old Mrs. Harris" / Jessica G. Rabin. Success and Willa Cather: The Uncelebrated Victories in Obscure Destinies / Joanne Stone Morrissey. Thea Kronborg, a Distinguished Provincial in New York: or, Willa Cather’s Cultural Geography of Humor / Susan J. Rosowski
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- 0838638570
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