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Cather Studies, Volume 15

Willa Cather and Letters
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Although it has long been claimed that Willa Cather destroyed most of her letters in order to protect her privacy, the record now makes clear that this is largely myth: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather digital archive has collected more than three thousand letters, and more are regularly being located. What can we learn about Cather and her fiction from such a wealth of firsthand writings? The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 15 use a variety of approaches to consider both letters authored by Cather and letters written to her, shining new light on Cather's relationships with her brother Roscoe Cather and her friends playwright and screenwriter Zoe Akins and opera diva Olive Fremstad. Readers also come to understand Cather's pleasure in artistic works produced by others, her experience of disability, and her appreciation of the GIs who read her books in Armed Services Editions. Contributors show how digital tools can be used to read across her letters at a larger scale, finding patterns and trends not discernible using conventional methods.
Melissa J. Homestead is a professor of English and program faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis and American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 and the coeditor of Cather Studies, Volume 9: Willa Cather and Modern Cultures (Nebraska, 2011), among other books.
List of Illustrations Introduction Melissa J. Homestead 1. "Near and Not Too Near": Celebrity Fandom and Queer Affinity in the Friendship between Willa Cather and Zoe? Akins Sara Bryant 2. A View Beyond The Song of the Lark: The Letters from Olive Fremstad to Willa Cather and Cather's Opera Diva Stories Jessica Tebo 3. "My Dear Boy": Roscoe Cather's Role within Willa Cather's Kingdom of Art Laurie A. Weber 4. The "Very Especial Pleasure" of Home Places: Four Letters by Willa Cather to Other Artists John H. Flannigan 5. "Something Out of Even This Hand-in-a-Box": Reading Disability in the New Complete Willa Cather Letters Digital Scholarly Edition Elizabeth Wells 6. Willa Cather, G.I. Fan Letters, and the Armed Services Editions during the Second World War Mary Chinery 7. Patterns and Outliers among People, Dates, and Places in Cather's Correspondence Gabi Kirilloff, Matthew Lavin, and Sean McCullough Notes on Contributors
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