.... Julie Prebel, University of Washington American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. By Caleb Crain. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. x, 310 pp. $35.00. Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. By Deborah Lindsay...

...Elsa Nettels Duke University Press 2007 Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America . By T. Gregory Garvey. Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xii, 263 pp. $ 39.95. Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather . By Paul R. Petrie...

...Anne Raine This essay reads Stein and Cather's early autobiographical fictions as part of a complex negotiation of the gendered divide between the professionalizing sciences and the feminized field of “nature work.” Intrigued yet unsatisfied by scientific accounts of human consciousness as...

... or an Edmund Wilson, he has brought the same intellectual seriousness and reforming passion to bear on the James of our time, with impressive results. Wendy Graham, Vassar College Willa Cather and the...

... ongoing debate over the contested territory charted in Neutral Ground. Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Willa Cather’s Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition.By...

...Melissa Ryan Duke University Press 2003 Melissa The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Ryan Confinement in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 33 of 246 Willa Cather’s public...

...Madelyn Detloff By Mary E. Galvin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1999. xii, 143 pp. Cloth,$49.95; paper, $18.95. 2000 Book Reviews 877 that first drew readers to Cather’s fiction and, despite the politics of many of her critics since...

... confirmation of just how much is at stake in the ongoing debate over the contested territory charted in Neutral Ground. Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Willa Cather’s...

... Willa Cather’s relationship to the American past is discussed more often in terms of her nostalgia than her historicism.1 But while nostalgia is a powerful force in Cather’s novels, we must now recognize that it is often...

... the culture that Cather herself was part of reminds Cather scholars that homosexuality, as a medicalized, politicized identity, was self-consciously available and utilized in many discourses dur- ing...

... settling on key modernist texts from Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Ander- son, and Ernest Hemingway in the final third of the book. The book’s cru- cial argument, however, revolves around the development of ‘‘protogay’’ and gay aesthete figures in James’s fiction, including Roderick Hudson...

.... This biography also makes an argument for elevating Glasgow’s status to that of her contemporaries Cather and Wharton. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. By Janis P. Stout. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xviii, 381 pp. $35.95. Working against discussions of Cather that...