Public domain photograph of Willa Cather, by Carl Van Vechten

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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introduction

A Teacher's Guide to Willa Cather from textbook publisher Heath.

A guide for Willa Cather from C-Span from their 2001 American Writers series.

Thomas, Susan. Introduction to Willa Cather at the Literary Encyclopedia, Sept. 2007 [subscription service].

literary criticism

Flannigan, John H. "Words and music made flesh in Cather's 'Eric Hermannson's Soul.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Spring 1995.

Frus, Phyllis; Corkin, Stanley. "Willa Cather's 'pioneer' novels and (not new, not old) historical reading." College Literature, Spring 1999.

Holmes, Catherine D. "Jim Burden's Lost Worlds: Exile in My Antonia." Twentieth Century Literature, Fall 1999.

Kot, Paula. "Speculation, tourism, and The Professor's House." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter 2002.

Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's My Antonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory." Twentieth Century Literature, Summer 2000.

Newman, S. "No Place Like Home: Reading Sapphira and the Slave Girl against the Great Depression." Ann Romines Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South (U of Virginia P 2000).

Petry, Alice Hall. A review of Willa Cather: Writing at the Frontier. Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1993.

Salas, Angela M. "Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Extending the boundaries of the body." College Literature, June 1997.

Saari, Rob. "'Paul's Case': A Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 301.81." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1997.

Zitter, Emmy Stark. "The unfinished picture: Willa Cather's 'The Marriage of Phaedra.'" On an early short story of Cather's, Studies in Short Fiction, Spring 1993.

web sites

The Willa Cather Archive A rich source of Cather materials, including scholarly editions of Oh Pioneers! and My Antonia, reliable digital transcriptions of other Cather first editions, transcriptions of her letters, biographies, photos, and access to literary criticism in Cather Studies.

My Ántonia. Selected for "The Big Read," Erika Koss, editor. Contents: Readers Guide contains Introduction, Historical Context, About the Author, Other Works/Adaptations, Discussion Questions, Bibliography; Teacher's Guide contains Schedule/Lesson Plans, Capstone Project Ideas, Essay Topics; and an audio radio program. National Endowment for the Arts.

Web site for The Song of the Lark, contains a Willa Cather timeline, notes about the production, and a teaching guide, from the Public Broadcasting Service.

A web site for "A Wagner Matinee." A Willa Cather short story, it was rewritten as a radio play. The web site presents the play, a biography, a discussion of themes, and a teaching guide. Scribbling Women.

editions

Scholarly edition of O Pioneers! (U of Nebraska P 1992). Complete text at the Willa Cather Archive, U of Nebraska.

Scholarly edition of My Antonia! (U of Nebraska P 1994). Complete text at the Willa Cather Archive, U of Nebraska.

removed

(removed) Acocella, Joan. A review by John Swift of Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. College Literature, Spring 2001.

(removed) Lindemann, Marilee. A review of Willa Cather: Queering America, (Columbia UP 1999). Reviewed by Reynolds, Guy. "Cather has become one of the most contested twentieth-century novelists. Current debate lies in the intersection of ideology and feminism, with a specific focus on how 'progressive' a writer Cather was." College Literature, Fall 2000.

(removed) Butterworth, Keen. A review of a scholarly edition of Oh Pioneers, "Review of Willa Cather." Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 9 http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/TEXT/vol9/cather.html.

(removed) Prchal, Tim. "The Bohemian paradox: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_29/ai_n8640587 My Antonia and popular images of Czech immigrants," MELUS, Summer 2004.

(removed) Skaggs, Merrill M. "Viola Roseboro': A prototype for Cather's My Mortal Enemy," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 2000/2001 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3729/is_200001/ai_n8898031.

(removed) http://willacather.org/index.htm The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation created an extensive web site on Cather, which includes a list of her works, one issue of their newsletter, and Cather news.

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