Willa Cather : new facts, new glimpses, revisions / edited by John J. Murphy and Merrill Maguire Skaggs.

Other author Murphy, John J. (John Joseph), 1933-
Other author Skaggs, Merrill Maguire.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison Teaneck [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2008.
Description345 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesWilla Cather series
Willa Cather series. ^A792650
Contents Reading the Menuhin chapter / Steven B. Shively -- Mysterious gift / Ashley H. Carter -- "Happy birthday, dear and noble artist" : Willa Cather, Yehudi Menuhin, and the Schubert letters / Suzi Yost Schulz and John A ("Jay") Yost -- Cather as illustrator / Timothy Bintrim -- Imag(e)ning the man : illustrations of Willa Cather's Bartley Alexander / Nichole Bennett -- Straight to the pointe : Willa Cather's training for the ballet / Wendy K. Perriman -- "Honey do we really need five copies of this?" : April twilights revisited / Jessica G. Rabin -- "Life is very simple -- all we have to do is our best!" : Willa Cather and the Brewsters / David Porter -- Another answer to Myra's question : Cather's existentialism and the evidence in the Willa Cather Collection / Marilyn Berg Callander -- Monstrous and the beautiful : Sapphira and the Willa Cather Collection / Laura Winters -- Puzzles and possibilities : the Drew typescript of Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Charles W. Mignon -- "Cécile" and the problem of a girl's vocation / Ann Romines -- "Cécile" fragment of Cather's Shadows on the rock / John J. Murphy -- Some reflections on three Cather fragments / Jane M. Rainis -- Reflections of German civilization : articles, stories, and notices in the Willa Cather Collection / Peter M. Sullivan -- Reflections on the joys of archival scholarship; or, when is a biography not a biography / Janis P. Stout -- "My gratitude is in excess of mere manners to express" : facts, gossip, and the foundation of the Adams-Crane correspondence / Robert Thacker -- Edith Lewis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and the scars of "The profile" / Mark Madigan -- Willa Cather Collection finding aid / Timothy Esh and Lucy K. Marks, comps. -- Gorham Munson falls out with Cather : a letter / Joseph R. Urgo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007031379
ISBN9780838641354 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838641350 (alk. paper)