Table of Contents:
  • Cather's classical background
  • Vanishing Arcadia, vanishing Gods: the early stories and April Twilights
  • Mythic struggle in The Troll Garden
  • Alexander to Alexandra: the apotheosis of the epic hero
  • The matriarchy realized: The Song of the Lark and My Antonia
  • the decay of the Hippolytean ideal
  • Unrecoverable origins: the mythic quests of Godfrey St. Peter and Myra Henshawe
  • Toward a Christian mythos: Willa Cather's last novels and stories.