On the Divide

David Porter is the Tisch Family Distinguished Professor at Skidmore College. He is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press: Riding a Great Horse and Horace s Poetic Journey: A Reading of Odes 1 3.

Introduction: On the Divide
Section I: Cather on Cather - Introduction
Chapter 1: Three Autobiographies and an (Auto)interview
Chapter 2: Dust Jacket Copy
 
Section II: Entering the Kingdom of Art - Introduction
Chapter 3: The Quest to Excel: 1890-1906
Chapter 4: Cather Caught in the Eddy
Chapter 5: Two Alter-Egos
 
Section III: At Home on the Divide - Introduction
Chapter 6: O Pioneers! and My Autobiography
Chapter 7: The Song of the Lark
Chapter 8: My Ántonia
 
Section IV: Confronting Medusa - Introduction
Chapter 9: "Hard and Dry"
Chapter 10: Youth and the Bright Medusa
Chapter 11: One of Ours
 
Section V: "The Seeming Original Injustice - Introduction
Chapter 12: A Lost Lady
Chapter 13: The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
Chapter 14: The Professor's House
Chapter 15: My Mortal Enemy
 
Section VI: Recapitulation - Introduction
Chapter 16: Conversations: Cather Talks with Cather
 
Section VII: "In the End is My Beginning" - Introduction
Chapter 17: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chapter 18: Fiction of the 1930s
Chatper 19: Cather, Jewett, and Not Under Forty
Chapter 20: Sapphira and the Slave Girl
 
Notes
Works Cited
Index