Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

The introduction explores existential terror in the works of Nebraska-native writer Cather (1873-1947). The other 22 papers discuss such topics as the problem of family feeling in her late fiction, her cosmopolitan west, recessional objects and her materialism, and her Lena Lingard and William Faulkner's Lena Grove. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)