Cather Studies, Volume 14

Marilee Lindemann is an associate professor of English and executive director of College Park Scholars at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Willa Cather: Queering America and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather and editions of Alexander's Bridge and O Pioneers!Ann Romines is professor emerita of English at George Washington University. She is the author of The Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual and many essays on Cather. Romines is also the editor of Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South and At Willa Cather's Tables and the historical editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Sapphira and the Slave Girl.

List of Illustrations Introduction: Unsettling Cather Ann Romines and Marilee Lindemann 1. Keepsakes and Treasures: Investigating Material Culture in Sapphira and the Slave Girl Sarah Clere 2. Willa Cather's "Black Liberation Theology" in Sapphira and the Slave Girl Barry Hudek 3. Willa Cather's State of the Union: Sapphira and the Slave Girl Tracyann F. Williams 4. Back to Virginia: "Weevily Wheat," My Antonia, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl Steven B. Shively 5. "Keen Senses Do Not Make a Poet": Cather's Respectful Rebellion against Whitman in O Pioneers! Hannah J. D. Wells 6. Americans' Coming of Age: Willa Cather's Female National Hero in The Song of the Lark Molly Metherd 7. "As Dangerous as High Explosives," or, The Sexual Lives of Hired Girls: Sex Radicalism in My Antonia Geneva M. Gano 8. Mapping and (Re)mapping the Nebraska Landscape in the Works of Willa Cather and Francis La Flesche Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz 9. Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz: The Muse and the Story Catcher in the Capital City Sallie Ketcham 10. "Blue Sky, Blue Eyes": Unsettling Multilingualism in My Antonia Andrew Wu 11. Regionalism DEmeublE: Reflective Nostalgia in Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Jace Gatzemeyer 12. The Neuroscience of Epiphany in Lucy Gayheart Joshua Dolezal 13. Unsettling Accompaniment: Disability as Critique of Aesthetic Power in Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart Elizabeth Wells Contributors Index