Willa Cather's masterful novel marks both her return to the Nebraska of her youth and the discovery of an original literary voice. O Pioneers! vividly recalls the stories of the immigrant settlers Cather knew during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud. This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Note on the Text	p. xxvii
The Text of O Pioneers!	p. 1
Contexts and Backgrounds
Autobiographical and Biographical Essays	p. 137
From Willa Cather: A Memoir	p. 137
Willa Cather Talks of Work	p. 152
The Vision of a Successful Fiction Writer	p. 156
Interview with Willa Cather	p. 160
Willa Sibert Cather	p. 167
Daughter of the Frontier	p. 170
Preface	p. 176
My First Novels	p. 178
Literary Contexts	p. 181
Peter	p. 181
A Wagner Matinee	p. 183
Review of Kate Chopin's The Awakening	p. 191
[On Henry James]	p. 193
From The Lesson of the Master	p. 194
From The House of Mirth	p. 201
The Willing Muse	p. 212
Letters to Willa Cather	p. 222
Miss Jewett	p. 225
A White Heron	p. 233
From Alexander's Bridge	p. 242
The Bohemian Girl	p. 246
[On Walt Whitman]	p. 283
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	p. 285
The American West	p. 289
Letters of Mattie and Uriah Oblinger	p. 289
Nature Frowns on Mankind	p. 320
From The Significance of the Frontier in American History	p. 327
Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle	p. 331
Swedes in Nebraska	p. 338
Bohemians in Nebraska	p. 340
Bohemian Cemeteries in Nebraska	p. 344
From Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism	p. 346
Criticism
Contemporary Reviews	p. 357
O Pioneers! A New Heroine and a New Country Appear	p. 357
A Good Novel	p. 358
Books of the Day	p. 359
Review of O Pioneers!	p. 360
Review of O Pioneers!	p. 361
[Review of O Pioneers!]	p. 363
A Novel without a Hero	p. 365
Modern Critical Views	p. 366
[Willa Cather and the Epic]	p. 366
[Biblical and Literary Contexts in O Pioneers!]	p. 373
[Gender and Creativity in O Pioneers!]	p. 379
Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and the Era of Scientific Sexology: A Dialogue between Frontiers	p. 396
[O Pioneers! and the Cultural Politics of the Progressive Era]	p. 415
The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!	p. 417
[Willa Cather and the Pioneer Myth in O Pioneers!]	p. 441
A Chronology	p. 453
Selected Bibliography	p. 457
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