The wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies
examine Willa Cather's unique artistic relationship to the
environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these
essays focus on Cather's close observations of the natural world
and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to
be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is
certain that Cather's novels and short stories are deeply grounded
in place, literary critics are only now considering how place
functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues
through her writing. These essays reintroduce us to a Cather who is
profoundly identified with the places that shaped her and that she
wrote about: Glen A. Love offers an interdisciplinary reading of
The Professor's House that is scientifically oriented; Joseph Urgo
argues that My Antonia models a preservationist aesthetic in which
landscape and memory are inextricably entangled; Thomas J. Lyon
posits that Cather had a living sense of the biotic community and
used nature as the standard of excellence for human endeavors; and
Jan Goggans considers the ways that My Antonia shifts from nativism
toward a "flexible notion of place-based community." Susan J.
Rosowski (1942-2004) is the author of Birthing a Nation: Gender,
Creativity, and the West in American Literature (Nebraska 1997).
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