Willa Cather?s My Antonia, a nostalgic novel about an earlier America, portrays the harmonies and disharmonies of the human world and the world of nature. This novel gathers together some of the best criticism available on the text, which covers such elements within the text as hope and memory, the American Dream, sex, and more. The title, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Willa Cather’s My Antonia through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Willa Cather, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
