Review of A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather By John March

Authors

Kari Ronning, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:3 (Summer 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Literary archaeologists of the future may be able to reconstruct the outlines and many of the details of Cather's fiction just from this comprehensive and readable guide. John March spent nearly forty years compiling the materials, while editors Arnold and Thornton and their team spent nearly six more editing, verifying, and documenting. Easily obtained information is generally omitted; what remains, as Arnold's introduction emphasizes, is March's personal selection, and the length and emphasis of most of the notes reflect his interpretations.