WILLA CATHER
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical
Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications |
Web Sites
Scope: Willa Cather, a 20th
century American novelist and short story writer,
enjoyed a very prolific career as she published twelve
novels and over sixty short stories. As a Midwesterner,
her stories deal with frontier life on the land and her
characters are strong women who transcend the
traditional roles dictated by the society of her day.
Cather is classified an American realist because of her
depiction of life as it is.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Willa Cather’s works are listed in our on-line
catalog under, “Cather, Willa,” and under individual
titles, i.e. “My Antonia”
Books written by and about Willa Cather have the call
number(s) PS3505.A87
Some representative books from the circulating
collection located upstairs in the Baddour Library are:
Donovan, Josephine.
After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton,
Cather, and Glasgow. University Park: Pennsylvania
State University Press,
1989.
Lawlor, Mary.
Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the
American
West. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press,
2000.
Lee, Hermione.
Willa Cather: Double Lives. New York: Pantheon
Books, 1989.
O’Brien, Sharon.
Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice: With a New Preface.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Sayre, Robert F.
Recovering the Prairie. Madison, Wis: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1999.
Shaw, Patrick W.
Willa Cather and the Art of Conflict: Re-Visioning Her
Creative
Imagination. Troy, N.Y: Whitston Pub. Co; 1992.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference collection that do not
circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following
titles are appropriate for this topic:
PS374.S5 C57 2000 The Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth Century American short story
PS 21.D 5 Vol. 78 Dictionary of Literary Biography,
American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910
PS 21.E537 2004 The Oxford Encyclopedia of American
Literature
PS 374.S5 F33 2000 The Facts on File Companion to the
American Short Story
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the
link for a list of full text journals available through
our databases in:
WEB SITES
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women
Maintained by John Mark
Okerbloom from On-Line Books Page in conjunction with
Universal Library Project. Significant women writers
indexed by author, century, and country. Bibliographies
provided.
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Covers the major internet resources in the field,
including authors, movements, and collections of
electronic literary texts. Essential to researchers in
English or American literature.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Authored by Alan Liu from the University of
California, this is an excellent and very comprehensive
literature site with links to thousands of web sites in
all areas of the humanities. Easily accessed and easy to
navigate. The homepage links to menus from 25 areas,
from anthropology to women's studies.
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