The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

This Companion covers the full range of Cather's career, and includes a detailed chronology and guide to further reading.

This Companion offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. The essays collected here cover the full range of Cather's career including most of her novels and short stories. A detailed chronology and guide to further reading offer a fresh introduction to this enigmatic author.The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as well as the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author of My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.