WILLA CATHER. Critical Assessments

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1 WILLA CATHER Critical Assessments Edited by Guy Reynolds VOLUME I Memoirs and Recollections; General Responses and Critical Overviews HELM INFORMATION

2 Contents General Editor's Preface 1 Introduction 3 Bibliography of Willa Cather's Major Works 8 Willa Cather: A Chronology of Her Life 9 Critical Bibliography 15 Chronological List of Criticism Included 19 Acknowledgements 32 VOLUME I: Memoirs and Recollections; General Responses and Critical Overviews Introduction to Willa Cather 1. WILLA SIBERT CATHER, 'Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle', The Nation, 117:3035, 5 September DOROTHY VAN GHENT, Willa Cather, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, Minneapolis, ANN M. BEGLEY, 'Remembrance of America Past', The American Scholar, 62, Memoirs and Recollections 4. ELIZABETH MOORHEAD, 'The Novelist', Willa Cather and Her Critics, ed. James Schroeter, Ithaca, 1967; rptd from These Too Were Here: Louise Homer and Willa Cather, Pittsburgh, MILDRED BENNETT, Art', The World of Willa Cather, 1951; rptd Lincoln, NE, 1961.' - 97 vii

3 6. EDITH LEWIS, 'Virginia' and 'Red Cloud', Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record, 1953; rptd Lincoln, NE, ALFRED A. KNOPF, 'Miss Cather', The Art of Willa Cather, eds Bernice Slote and Virginia Faulkner, Lincoln, NE, YEHUDI MENUHIN, from Aunt Willa', Unfinished Journey, London, Early Responses: Cather's Critics in the 1920s 9. LATROBE CARROLL, 'Willa Sibert Cather', Bookman, 53, CARL VAN DOREN, 'Willa Cather', Contemporary American Novelists, New York, 1922; rptd Willa Cather and Her Critics, ed. James Schroeter, Ithaca, LLOYD MORRIS, 'Willa Cather', North American Review, 219, STUART SHERMAN, 'Willa Cather and the Changing World,' Critical Woodcuts, New York and London, LUCY LOCKWOOD HAZARD, from The Frontier in American Literature, New York, REGIS MICHAUD, from The American Novel To-day, Port Washington, T. K. WHIPPLE, 'Willa Cather', Spokesmen, New York and London, 'The Case Against Willa Cather' and 'A Defense of Willa Cather': The 1930s Debate 16. V. L. PARRINGTON, 'Willa Cather: Epics of Women', Addenda to Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920, Vol. Ill, : The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, New York, WILLIAM BLANKENSHIP, 'Beyond the Village: Willa Cather', American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind, London, LOUIS KRONENBERGER, 'Willa Cather', Bookman, 74, October CLIFTON FADIMAN, 'Willa Cather: The Past Recaptured', The Nation, 135, 7 December A. C. WARD, from American Literature , London, ARCHER WINSTEN, A Defense of Willa Cather', Bookman, 74, March PELHAM EDGAR, from The Art of the Novel From 1700 to the Present Time, New York, GRANVILLE HICKS, 'The Case Against Willa Cather', English Journal, November 1933; rptd Willa Cather and Her Critics, ed. James Schroeter, Ithaca, viii

4 24. HARRY HARTWICK, 'Simplicity with Glory', The Foreground of American Fiction, New York, ROBERT CANTWELL, from 'A Season's Run', The New Republic, 85, 11 December HARLAN HATCHER, 'Willa Cather and the Shifting Moods', Creating the Modern American Novel, London, MARGARET LAWRENCE, 'Willa Cather', The School of Femininity, New York, 1936; rptd Folcroft Library Editions, ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN, 'Willa Cather', American Fiction, New York LIONEL TRILLING, 'Willa Cather', The New Republic, 90, 10 February ROBERT FOOTMAN, 'The Genius of Willa Cather', American Literature, 10, HOWARD MUMFORD JONES, 'The Novels of Willa Cather', The Saturday Review of Literature, 18, 6 August Judgements and Elegies: The 1940s 32. GEORGE L. WHITE, Jr, 'Willa Cather', Sewanee Review, 50, ALFRED KAZIN, from 'Elegy and Satire: Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow', On Native Grounds, London E. K. BROWN, 'Homage to Willa Cather', Yale Review, 36, DAYTON KOHLER, 'Willa Cather: ', College English, 9, MAXWELL GEISMAR, from 'Willa Cather: Lady in the Wilderness', The Last of the Provincials, 1947, New York, H. S. CANBY, from Literary History of the United States, ed. Robert E. Spiller et al., 1948, 4th edn, New York and London J. DONALD ADAMS, from 'The Fact and the Vision', The Shape of Books to Come, New York, BERNARD BAUM, 'Willa Cather's Waste Land', South Atlantic Quarterly, 48, 1949,373 'Willa Cather at Mid-Century': The 1950s and 1960s 40. FRANCIS CONNOLLY, 'Willa Cather: Memory as Muse', Fifty Years of the American Novel, ed. Harold C. Gardiner, New York, VAN WYCK BROOKS, from 'Renascence', The Confident Years: , New York, FREDERICK HOFFMAN, 'Willa Cather's Two Worlds', The Twenties, 1955, revised edn, New York, ix

5 43. HOWARD MUMFORD JONES, 'Willa Cather', The Frontier in American Fiction, Jerusalem, GEORGE GREENE, 'Willa Cather at Mid-Century', Thought, 32, MORTON D. ZABEL, 'Willa Cather: The Tone of Time', Craft and Character in Modern Fiction, London, HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, from 'The Traditionalists', The American Mind, New Haven, JOHN H. RANDALL III, from The Landscape and the Looking Glass: Willa Cather's Search for Value, Boston, WILLARD THORP, from 'New Voices', American Writing in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge MA, QUENTIN ANDERSON, 'Willa Cather: Her Masquerade', The New Republic, 27 November WARNER BERTHOFF, from The Ferment of Realism, Cambridge, WILLIAM M. CURTIN, 'Willa Cather: Individualism and Style', Colby Library Quarterly, 8,