Cather Studies, Volume 6: History, Memory, and War

Index

I N D E X Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 9 Adams, Franklin Pierce, 288 Adler, Judith, 185, 193 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 288 Aeneid (Virgil), 48–49 African Americans: portrayed in Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 21–22; relationships between whites and, 14–15 Aguinaldo, Emilio, 58 Alexander’s Bridge (Cather), 244 All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 76 The American City, 164 American Defense Society, 136 American Expeditionary Forces (aef), recreation for, xx, 165– 74 American Jewish Chronicle, 211 American Jewish Committee, 211 American Library Association (ala), 167–68, 169 American Progress (Gast), 40 Anderson, Marjorie, 11 anti-Semitism: in American business , 131–32, 133, 211–12; in Edith Wharton novels, xxi– xxii, 208, 213–17; fueled by Jewish opposition to World War I, 208–11, 224–25n1; international, 212; and Jews accused of treason, 222–23; military service by Jews and, 208–9, 217–18; in The Professor ’s House, 205–8, 222–24; after World War I, 212–13 antitourism and cultural poisoning, 185–87 April Twilights (Cather), 7 archaeology, 47–49 Armed Services Editions (ases), xxiii–xxiv, 289–94 Army Manual of Instruction, 210 Arnold, Henry H., 279 artists, Willa Cather on, 1–7 As You Were (Woollcott), 288, 289, 291 Atlantic Monthly, 81 aviation, 272–82, 283n7 The Awakening (Chopin), 241 Baillie, Herbert, 135 Baker, Newton, 166 ballet. See dance Bataille, Georges, xxi, 195–96, 201n16 Battle of Little Bighorn, 38, 40, 54n7 Beaumont, Cyril W., 253 Belloc, Hilaire, 212 Benda, W. T., 106, 107 301 302 i n de x Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr., 46 Berliner Zeitung, 277 Best, Marshall, 289 Betton, John, 132 Beveridge, Albert J., 43 Beyond Ethnicity (Sollors), 36 The Big Parade (Vidor), 76 The Birth of the Ballets-Russes (Lieven), 258 Blanchard, C. J., 175 Bleak House (Dickens), 164 Blight, David W., 6, 12, 23 Blue Hill Leader, 60 Boak, Jacob Seibert, 7 Boak, James William, 7–8, 16 Boak, Mary Virginia, 11, 25n3 Boak, Rachel Seibert, 6–7, 11–12, 13, 18 Boak, William Lee, 7 Boak, William Seibert, xiv, 7, 15, 16 Boas, Franz, 45–46 Bradley, Mary Hastings, 187, 189, 198 Brands, H. W., 44 Braucher, H. S., 164 Brave New World (Huxley), 132 The Bridal Wreath (Undset), 292 Brooks, Van Wyck, 87 Broun, Heywood, 156 Brown, E. K., 124n9 Brown, Theodore M., 133 Bryan, William Jennings, 62 Burr, Anna Robeson, 187, 188, 198 business, American: auto makers and, 130–33, 139, 275–76; aviation and, 272–82, 283n7 Caesar, Terry, 189 Canfield Fisher, Dorothy: communications with Willa Cather, 74, 76, 77, 78, 81, 87, 285; on the doughboys of World War I, 145, 149; and her travels with Willa Cather, 129–30 The Canvas Falcons (Longstreet), 278 capitalism, 195–200, 201n16 Cather, Charles, 6, 11 Cather, Douglass, 18 Cather, Frances Smith, 67, 72, 74, 77 Cather, Frank, 59 Cather, George, 6 Cather, George P., 67 Cather, Grosvenor P., xv, xvii; death of in World War I, 74– 75, 151; as inspiration for One of Ours, 60–61, 74–75, 76– 77, 94, 124n5, 129; and the Spanish-American War, 59, 60, 62, 63–68 Cather, Mary Virginia Boak, 6–7 Cather, Oscar, 59 Cather, Wilella, 8 Cather, Willa: Alexander Woollcott and, 286–89, 291; on artists, 1–7; on brokenness after World War I, 70–71, 81, 83, 84–85, 87, 228, 245; childhood during Reconstruction, 9–10; Civil War veterans among relatives of, 7–8; communications with Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 74, 76, 77, 78, 81, 87, 88n4; confusion about family history of, 7–8; distress over World War I, 77–78, 81; as editor of McClure’s Magazine, 1, 25n2, 245, 282n2, 287; favorite novels of, 288; foreboding about impending World War II, 86–87; influence of dance on writing of, 246–53, 261–65; 303 i n de x influence of the Reconstruction years on writing of, 12–13; journalism writing during the Spanish-American War, 59–60; lesbianism of, 96–97, 258–59, 264–65; and meetings with returning soldiers, 155; move of, to Nebraska, 11, 13; as a New Woman, 92–93, 103, 119–20, 125n22; personal history in writings of, 24; photographs of, 160, 161; popularity of, 294; Progressivism and, 229–30, 233; and protectiveness of her work, 287; and the Pulitzer Prize, 67; reaction to the death of G. P. Cather, 74–75; recreational activities...