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FDU PRESS
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| Scholarly Review |
 | Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions
ISBN# 9780838641354
Reviewed by: J.W. Hall, University of Mississippi
Choice, November 2008 |
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The contribution of the 21 essays collected here are all indebted to Drew University's exceptional Willa Cather Collection. The archive's rich variety is evident in the 50-page finding aid contributed by Timothy Esh and Lucy Marks and in such essays as Timothy Bintrim's "Cather as Illustrator"; Jessica Rabin's analysis of editions of April Twilights, Cather's seldom-discussed poems; Ann Romines's "'Cecile' and the Problem of a Girl's Vocation," on a story fragment related to the novel Shadows on the Rock; and Joseph Urgo's witty dissection of Cather's satiric letter to critic Gorham Munson. Both Murphy (emer., Brigham Young Univ.) and Skaggs (Drew Univ.) have published volumes of Cather scholarship, for example, Murphy's "My Antonia": The Road Home and Skagg's Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner. Skagg's introduction to the current gathering emphasizes that the Drew holdings "can startle any researcher with eyes for new possibilities." The other sharp-eyed contributions include Steven Shively, Ashley Carter, Richard Harris, Suzi Yost Schultz and John Yost, Nichole Bennett, Wendy Perriman, David Porter, Marilyn Berg Callander, Laura Winters, Charles Mignon, Jane Rainis, Peter Sullivan, Janis Stout, Robert Thacker, and Mark Madigan. Summing Up: Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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