The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition

FAIN: RZ-20510-99

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
Susan J. Rosowski (Project Director: September 1998 to March 2003)

The continuing preparation of an edition of Willa Cather's works.

We are applying for the support to complete a 17-year project of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, which is providing the only accurate and fully researched texts of this major American writer. We request from NEH support for a three-quarter Assistant Editor, released time from teaching for the General Editor and Textual Editor, a workshop, and some travel allowance. We will focus during the grant period upon the final three volumes of the Edition, conducting collations, establishing the critical texts, preparing textual and explanatory apparatuses, submitting to CSE inspections and thence to the Press: Alexander's Bridge, The Song of the Lark, and One of Ours. Also during this grant period we will complete work on four volumes now underway: The Professor's House, Lucy Gayheart, Shadows on the Rock, and My Mortal Enemy.