Cather Studies, Volume 9: Willa Cather and Modern Cultures

Contents

C O N T E N T S Editorial Policy vii Introduction ix M E L I S S A J . H O M E S T E A D A N D G U Y J . R E Y N O L D S 1. Willa Cather in and out of Zane Grey’s West 1 J O H N N . S W I F T 2. Thea’s “Indian Play” in The Song of the Lark 21 S A R A H C L E R E 3. “Jazz Age” Places: Modern Regionalism in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House 45 K E L S E Y S Q U I R E 4. Changing Trains: Metaphors of Transfer in Willa Cather 67 M A R K A . R . F A C K N I T Z 5. Chicago’s Cliff Dwellers and The Song of the Lark 93 M I C H E L L E E . M O O R E 6. Willa Cather and Henry Blake Fuller: More Building Blocks for The Professor’s House 114 R I C H A R D C . H A R R I S 7. Cather’s “Office Wives” Stories and Modern Women’s Work 133 A M B E R H A R R I S L E I C H N E R 8. It’s Mr. Reynolds Who Wishes It: Profit and Prestige Shared by Cather and Her Literary Agent 158 M A T T H E W L A V I N 9. Thea at the Art Institute 182 J U L I E O L I N - A M M E N T O R P 10. Art and the Commercial Object as Ekphrastic Subjects in The Song of the Lark and The Professor’s House 204 D I A N E P R E N A T T 11. “The Nude Had Descended the Staircase”: Katherine Anne Porter Looks at Willa Cather Looking at Modern Art 225 J A N I S P. S T O U T 12. “The Cruelty of Physical Things”: Picture Writing and Violence in Willa Cather’s “The Profile” 244 J O Y C E K E S S L E R 13. “Before Its Romanzas Have Become Street Music”: Cather and Verdi’s Falstaff, Chicago, 1895 266 J O H N H . F L A N N I G A N Contributors 289 Index 293 ...