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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

O Pioneers!

Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • The Text of O Pioneers!
  • Contexts and Backgrounds
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
  • Elizabeth Sergeant [From Willa Cather: A Memoir']
  • 1913 Interview
  • 1915 Interview
  • 1921 Interview
  • Latrobe Carroll * "Willa Sibert Cather"
  • Dorothy Canfield Fischer * "Willa Cather, Daughter of the Frontier"
  • Willa Cather * "Preface" to Alexander's Bridge
  • Willa Cather * "My First Novels: There Were Two"
  • LITERARY CONTEXTS
  • Willa Cather * "Peter"
  • Willa Cather * "A Wagner Matinee"
  • Willa Cather * [On Henry James]
  • Henry James * From "The Lesson of the Master"
  • Edith Wharton * From The House of Mirth
  • Willa Cather * "The Willing Muse"
  • Sarah Orne Jewett * [Letters to Willa Cather]
  • Willa Cather * "Miss Jewett"
  • Sarah Orne Jewett * "A White Heron"
  • Willa Cather * From Alexander's Bridge
  • Willa Cather * "The Bohemian Girl"
  • Willa Cather * [On Whitman]
  • Walt Whitman * "Pioneers! O Pionners!"
  • THE AMERICAN WEST
  • The Oblinger Letters * Library of Congress, "American Memory" site
  • Everett Dick * [From The Sod-House Frontier]
  • Frederick Jackson Turner * [From "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"]
  • Willa Cather * "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle"
  • Joseph Alexis * From "Swedes in Nebraksa" (paper read at the annual meeting of the Nebraska State Historical Society, January 22, 1914)
  • Sarka B. Hrbkova * "Bohemians in Nebraska (Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 19)
  • Rose Rosicky * From A History of the Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska
  • Mike Fischer * [From "Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism"]
  • Criticism
  • CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
  • From Boston Evening Transcript
  • From Chicago Evening Post
  • From McClure's Magazine
  • From Bookman
  • From Lincoln Sunday State Journal
  • From Nation
  • From New York Times Book Review
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS
  • David Stouck * [Willa Cather and the Epic]
  • John J. Murphy * [Biblical and Literary Contexts in O Pioneers!]
  • Sharon O'Brien * [Gender and Creativity in O Pioneers!]
  • C. Susan Wiesenthal * 'Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and the Era of
  • Scientific Sociology: A Dialogue between Frontiers"
  • Marilee Lindemann * [From "Introduction" to O Pioneers!]
  • Melissa Ryan * "The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in O Pioneers!"
  • Guy Reynolds * [Willa Cather and the Pioneer Myth]
  • Willa Cather: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography