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Cather, Willa
American b.1876 d.1947.

  1. In Allen, W.E. Short Story in English. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. pp. 121-127.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- The Troll's Garden -- "Neighbour Rosicky" -- "Paul's Case" -- "The Sculptor's Funeral" -- "A Wagner Matinee"

  2. In Auchincloss, Louis. Pioneers & Caretakers: A Study ofNine American Women Novelists. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965. pp. 92-122.
    Criticism -- Works

  3. In Barillas, William. The Midwestern Pastoral. Athens, Ohio University Press, pp. 55083.
    Criticism -- Works -- My Antonia -- O Pioneers

  4. In Beaver, Harold, ed. American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 165-179.
    Criticism -- Works

  5. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Fiction 1914 to 1945. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986, c1987. pp. 25-36.
    Criticism -- Works

  6. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. 1. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c1997-c1998. pp. 64-82.
    Criticism -- Works --

  7. In Bryer, Jackson R., ed. Fifteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 1969. pp. 23-62.
    Criticism -- Works

  8. In Cowley, Malcolm, ed. After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers, 1910-1930. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964. pp. 48-56.
    Criticism -- Works

  9. In Canby, Henry S. Definitions, Vol 2. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1967. pp. 233-236.
    Criticism -- A Lost Lady

  10. In Dickstein, Morris. Mirror in the Roadway. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005. pp.60-74.
    Criticism -- A Lost Lady

  11. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York, Macmillan, 1933. pp. 303-318.
    Criticism -- Works --

  12. In Epstein, Joseph. Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing. New York : W.W. Norton, c1985. pp. 207-220.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  13. In Faverty, Frederic, E. Your Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. pp. 188-190.
    Criticism -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

  14. In Felder, Deborah. Bookshelf of Our Own. New York : Citadel Press, c2005. pp. 90-94.
    Criticism -- My Antonia

  15. In Fleischmann, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisted: Essays in Feminist Criticism. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co, c1982. pp. 265-298.
    Criticism -- Works -- Short Stories -- Novels

  16. In Gelfant, Blanche H. Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1984. pp. 94-143.
    Criticism -- Works -- My Antonia -- Lucy Gayheart

  17. In Gornick, Vivian. The End of the Novel of Love. Boston : Beacon Press, c1997. pp. 83-102.
    Criticism -- Works -- "My Mortal Enemy" -- The Professor's House -- The Song of the Lark

  18. In Hatcher, Harlan. Creating the Modern American Novel . New York: Russell & Russell, 1965, [c1962]. pp. 58-71.
    Criticism -- Works

  19. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 105-113.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Professor's House

  20. In Kraft, Stephanie. No Castles on Main Street: American Authors and Their Homes. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1979. pp. 95-100.
    Criticism -- Works -- My Antonia

  21. In Lawrence, Margaret. The School of Femininity: A Book for and about Women as They Are Interpreted through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1976, 1936. pp. 355-364.
    Criticism -- Works -- Lucy Gayheart -- A Lost Lady -- The Professor's House

  22. Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's My Antonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory In Twenteith Century Literature, Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 193-213.
    Criticism -- My Antonia

  23. In Lyons, John O. The College Novel in America . Southern Illinois University Press, 1962. pp. 108-112, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The Professor's House

  24. In McClave, Heather, ed. Women Writers of the Short Story. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1980. pp. 50-68.
    Criticism -- Short Stories

  25. In McDonald, Gail. American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2007. pp. 37-39.
    Criticism -- The Professor's House

  26. In Malin, Irving. Psycholanalysis and American Fiction. New York, Dutton, 1965. pp. 199-222.
    Criticism -- The Professor's House

  27. In Mencken, H.L. H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1968. pp. 263-267.
    Criticism -- Works -- Alexander's Bridge -- My Antonia -- Youth and the Bright Medusa

  28. In Moers, Ellen. Literary Women . Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976. pp. 230-242, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Novels --

  29. In Monroe, N. Elizabeth. The Novel and Society. Port Washington, N. Y., Kennikat Press, 1965. pp. 225-245..
    Criticism -- Works --

  30. In Morgan, H. Wayne. Writers in Transition. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963. pp. 60-81.
    Criticism -- Works

  31. In Morris, Wright. Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments. New York : Harper & Row, c1978. pp. 59-67.
    Criticism -- The Professor's House -- Song of the Lark

  32. In Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992. pp. 18-28.
    Criticism -- Race in Literature -- Sapphira and the Slave Girl -- Slavery in Literature

  33. In Neville, Susan. Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writinig, Literature, and Land. Bloomington, Quarry Books, 2007. pp. 154-164.
    Criticism -- Time in Literature -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

  34. In Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings. New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. pp. 29-39.
    Criticism -- Works

  35. In Quinn, Arthur Hobson. American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts [1964]. pp. 683-697.
    Criticism -- Works

  36. In Rahv, Philip. Literature in America. New York: Meridian Books, 1957. pp. 310-316.
    Criticism -- Works

  37. In Reynolds, Guy. Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999. pp. 65-79.
    Criticism -- Works

  38. In Rule, Jane. Lesbian Images. Trumansburg, N.Y. : Crossing Press, 1982, c1975. pp. 74-87.
    Criticism -- Biography -- Works -- Lucy Gayheart -- My Mortal Enemy -- The Professor's House -- The Song of the Lark

  39. In Snell, George. The Shapers of American Fiction, 198--1947. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1961. pp. 150-156.
    Criticism -- Works --

  40. In Stegner, Wallace, ed. The American Novel: From James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. New York: Basic Books, [1965]. pp. 144-153.
    Criticism -- My Antonia

  41. In Thorp, Willard. American Writing in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. pp. 54-62.
    Criticism -- Works

  42. In Turner, Frederick. Spirit of Place. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1989. pp. 137-164.
    Criticism -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

  43. In Van Doren, Carl. The American Novel, 1789-1939 . New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. pp. 281-293.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  44. In Wagenknecht, Edward. Cavalcade of the American Novel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1952. pp. 319-338.
    Criticism -- Works

  45. Williams, Deborah Lindsay. " Cather, Woolf, and the Two Mrs. Ramseys." In College English, Volume 61, Number 1, September 1998. pp. 29-40.
    Criticism -- Works -- Lucy Gayheart -- To The Lighthouse -- Woolf, Virigina

  46. In Zabel, Morton Dauwen. Craft and Character: Texts, Method, and Vocation in Modern Fiction. New York: Viking, 1957. pp. 264-275.
    Criticism -- Works

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