Cather Studies, Volume 10Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth centurythe cultures that shaped Willa Cathers childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held valuesare addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cathers