Contributor
Bintrim, Timothy W. editor.
ImprintLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Descriptionxix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Note:Based on papers presented at the Sixteenth International Willa Cather Seminar, held at Duquesne University in June 2017. --Introduction.
Note:Prologue: becoming "Miss Cather from Pittsburgh" / Ann Romines -- Part 1. East meets West -- Bicycles and Freedom in Red Cloud and Pittsburgh: Willa Cather's early transformations of place and gender in "Tommy, the unsentimental" / Daryl W. Palmer -- Where Pagodas Rise on Every Hill: romance as resistance in "A son of the celestial" / Michael Gorman -- The Boxer Rebellion, Pittsburgh's Missionary Crisis, and "The Conversion of Sum Loo" / Timothy W. Bintrim -- Part 2. Class action: retrying "Paul's Case" -- Growing Pains: the city behind Cather's Pittsburgh classroom / Mary Ruth Ryder -- Big Steel and Class Consciousness in "Paul's Case" / Charmion Gustke -- "The Most Exciting Attractions Are between Two Opposites That Never Meet": Willa Cather and Andy Warhol / Todd Richardson -- Part 3. Friendships, literary and musical -- Willa Cather as Translator: the Pittsburgh "French soirées" / Diane Prenatt -- A Collegial Friendship: Willa Cather and Ethel Herr Litchfield / John H. Flannigan -- Grave and God-Free: Ethelbert Nevin as a pivotal historical source in "The professor's commencement" and The Professor's House / Kimberly Vanderlaan -- Part 4. Later stories -- "I'm Working, I'm Working": the industrious artist of Pittsburgh in Willa Cather's The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine publications / Kelsey Squire -- Venetian Window: Pittsburgh glass and modernist community in "Double birthday" / Joseph C. Murphy -- Cather's Pittsburgh and the Alchemy of Social Class / Angela Conrad -- Epilogue: Why Willa Cather? a retrospective / John J. Murphy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that Willa Cather's writing career was shaped during the crucial years in Pittsburgh and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there."-- Provided by publisher.
