Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition ra

A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is gu