Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Genius and the (Un)Dead Girls: Consumption, Artistry, and the Female Body in The Song of the Lark -- Anatomy Is All: The Pathology of Voice in The Song of the Lark -- Künstlerroman Revised: Doubleness and Catharsis in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark -- Immeasurable Yearnings: The Artistic Legacy of the Landscape in Cather's The Song of the Lark -- Place, Inspiration, and the Railroad in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark -- A Place Apart: Transcending Social Topographies in The Song of the Lark -- The Kingdom of Culture: Culture, Ethnology and the "Feeling of Empire" in The Song of the Lark -- Locating Mexicans in The Song of the Lark -- "You Are What You Read": Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg -- A Tale of Two Sisters: The Influence of "Goblin Market" on Cather's The Song of the Lark -- "The Inevitable Hardness of Human Life": The Song of the Lark as Naturalism -- Willa Cather's Transitional Novel: The Song of the Lark as a Romantic-Naturalistic Novel with a Modernist Center -- Gift Giving and Community in Cather's The Song of the Lark -- About the Authors -- Abstract of Arguments -- Index.