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.