Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20030401
Author:Decker, James M.

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. By JOAN ACOCELLA. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2000. ix + 127 pp. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-1046-9.

Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City. Ed. by MERRILL MAGUIRE SKAGGS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 318 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3857-0.

Only a few years after Willa Cather died in 1947, her critical reputation stood in disrepair, apparently finishing a process begun almost two decades earlier by a group of ...

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