Editorial Policy Introduction: Willa Cather as Icon Guy Reynolds A Commentary on An Explanation of America Robert Pinsky What Happens to Criticism When the Artist Becomes an Icon? Elsa Nettels Advertising Cather during the Transition Years (1914-1922) Erika Hamilton Willa Cather and Her Public in 1922 Janis P. Stout A Portrait of an Artist as a Cultural Icon: Edward Steichen, Vanity Fair, and Willa Cather Michael Schueth Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-Month Club Mark J. Madigan "Two or Three Human Stories": O Pioneers! and the Old Testament Jessica G. Rabin Barbusse's L'enfer: A Source for "Coming, Aphrodite!" and "The Novel Démeublé" Richard C. Harris Recollecting Emotion in Tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Cather's My Ántonia and Lucy Gayheart Jonathan D. Gross "Have I Changed So Much?": Jim Burden, Intertextuality, and the Ending of My Ántonia Timothy C. Blackburn Shadows on the Rock: Against Interpretation Richard H. Millington Cather's Shadows: Solid Rock and Sacred Canopy John J.

Murphy Cather's Secular Humanism: Writing Anacoluthon and Shooting Out into the Eternities Joseph R. Urgo Subsequent Reflections on Shadows on the Rock Richard H. Millington, John J. Murphy, and Joseph R. Urgo Cather, Freudianism, and Freud John N. Swift Cather's Medical Icon: Euclide Auclair, Healing Art, and the Cultivated Physician Joshua Dolezal The Dialectics of Seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh: "Double Birthday" and Urban Allegory Joseph C. Murphy Antithetical Icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and the First World War Steven Trout Icons and Willa Cather Merrill Maguire Skaggs "A Critic Who Was Worthy of Her": The Writing of Willa Cather: A Critical Biography Robert Thacker Contributors Index.