Willa Cather and the American Southwest

The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cathersaesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her asen... » 

The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cathersaesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her asense of raw incompleteness. They seemed not so much finished places as thingsunassembled more like countries still waiting to be made into a landscape.Cathers fascination with the Southwest led to its presence as a significantsetting in three of her most ambitious novels The Song of the Lark TheProfessors House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. This volume focuses asharp eye on how the landscape of the American Southwest served Cathercreatively and the ways it shaped her research and productivity. No singlescholarly methodology prevails in the essays gathered here giving the volumerare depth and complexity. «