Cather Studies, Volume 5The wide ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cathers unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cathers close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Cathers novels and short stories are deeply grounded in