Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Willa Cather's Mercurial Position Among the Critics, 1918-1949; The Author and the Archetype: Biographical and Thematic Approaches to Cather; Critical Conversations on Gender and Sexuality; The Sociohistorical Cather: Approaches to Race, War, and the Environment; Cather in the Literary Marketplace: Authorial Criticism, Archival Studies, and Book-Historical Criticism; Afterword: "Having It Out, " or Continuing the Critical Conversation