Willa Cather's New York: new essays on Cather in the city

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.