Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's
own (Red Cloud), My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a
Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted
from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Antonia and Jim, like many
of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's
childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the
first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by
explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that
gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a
note on the text. "Contexts and Backgrounds" is a rich collection
of materials organized around the novel's central themes:
"Autobiographical and Biographical Writings," "Letters," and
"Americanization and Immigration." Willa Cather, Edith Lewis,
Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter
Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky,
among others, are included. "Criticism" spans a century of
scholarship on Willa Cather and My Antonia, from contemporary
reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W.
Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence
Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan
Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda
Joyce Brown. A Chronology of Cather's life and work and a Selected
Bibliography are also included.
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