Table of Contents:
  • Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses
  • Cather's Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism
  • 'Sense-dwarfed': Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism
  • Pale Shades and Living Colours: Cather's Looks
  • Sound Affects: Music, Voice and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy and Lucy Gayheart
  • Touch: Haptic Narrative in The Professor's House, Shadows on the Rock and Sapphira and the Slave Girl
  • Cather, Taste and National Cuisines: The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock
  • Cather's Smellscapes: Perfumes and Flowers, Disgust and Seduction
  • Conclusion: The Body of the Author.