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MUShare Department of English Faculty Publications and Research Winter 2015 “What Is There about Us Always”: The Archbishop and Willa Cather’s [Roman] Catholic Imagination Diane Prenatt Marian University - Indianapolis, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://mushare.marian.edu/fp_deng Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Catholic Studies Commons Recommended Citation Prenatt, Diane, "“What Is There about Us Always”: The Archbishop and Willa Cather’s [Roman] Catholic Imagination" (2015). Department of English. 7. https://mushare.marian.edu/fp_deng/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications and Research at MUShare. It has been accepted for inclusion in Department of English by an authorized administrator of MUShare. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEWSLETTER & REVIEW Volume 58 z No. 2 Winter 2015 Cather and Europe Willa Cather NEWSLETTER & REVIEW Volume 58 z No. 2 | Winter 2015 18 23 4 12 39 29 35 45 50 CONTENTS 1 Letters from the Executive Director and the President 29 An Elegy for the Reader: Europe and the Narrative of Self-formation in Lucy Gayheart z Richard H. Millington 2 Cather in Europe, Europe and Cather: The 2014 Symposium in Rome, Italy 35 Pierre Loti and Willa Cather’s Journey Home: So Near, Andrew Jewell and Mark J. Madigan So Far z Françoise Palleau-Papin 4 Willa Cather’s “Individual Map” of Paris 39 “What Is There about Us Always”: The Archbishop and Julie Olin-Ammentorp Willa Cather’s [Roman] Catholic Imagination Diane Prenatt 12 Willa Cather and the Art of “Recoverable Contexts”: Source Materials for One of Ours z Richard C. Harris 45 Fair Rosamond and Fierce Rosamund: European Models for the Older Daughter in The Professor’s House 18 Becoming Cosmopolitan: The European Encounter with Peter M. Sullivan the New World in Death Comes for the Archbishop Nalini Bhushan 50 The Translation in the Closet: Willa Cather and Marguerite Yourcenar z Stéphanie Durrans 23 Latin Perspectives and Special Friendships in the Aeneid and The Professor’s House z Cristina Giorcelli 56 The Haunting Continent: Europe in Cather z John J. Murphy On the cover: The Panthéon, Eugène Atget, 1924, from The J. Paul Getty Museum. Letter from they were the three principal cities in Nebraska, so to speak.” After painstaking research and study (through the archives of the Executive Director our imaginations), we have located a rare, priceless map showing Ashley Olson these “principal cities of Nebraska.” We have reproduced it on our back cover of this issue, and we will have no comment regarding Warm greetings to each of our friends and supporters as the questions of its authenticity. year draws to a close and 2016 begins. I’m confident you’ll find But to return now to “serious matters.” To the Willa Cather satisfaction in this issue’s insightful scholarship that developed out Foundation’s leadership and Board of Governors, that means of our three-day scholarly symposium held in Rome in June 2014. doing all we can to spur new scholarship and to drive interest in As I embarked on my own first European voyage—regretfully Cather’s life and work. As we prepare to close the book on our by air and not on one of the grand ocean liners that Cather took 60th anniversary year, we owe sincere thanks to the scholars who on her European travels—I could not help but think about the continue their research endeavors; the educators who find value similar thrill she surely felt to experience new cultures and cities in introducing their students to Cather’s work; the visitors who for the first time. In a 1908 letter to her brother, Roscoe (which make pilgrimages to Red Cloud; and the members and donors you’ll see referenced more than once in this issue), she remarked, who enable us to sustain our programs while preserving the “I got my guide book for Rome the other day. Seems queer to be historic community of reader’s imaginations. really on the way to Rome; for of course Rome has always existed Since our founding in 1955, a rising tide has ensured Cather’s for one, it was a central fact in one’s life in Red Cloud and was legacy as one of our greatest American novelists, and our task is always the Capital of one’s imagination. Rome, London, and Paris to celebrate that achievement. Thank you for being part of this were serious matters when I went to the South ward school— historic journey. And next year, bring a friend aboard. associated with Cather’s life and work; the development of strong Letter from the President institutional alliances, such as with the Nebraska State Historical Thomas Reese Gallagher Society and the University of Nebraska Cather Project, which have helped assure our viability; thousands of visitors, including many who come again and again, and such distinguished guests A confession: we were a number of weeks into 2015 before it as John G. Neihardt, Eudora Welty, Maya Angelou, David occurred to us to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Cather McCullough, Julie Harris and Eva Marie Saint; the awarding of Foundation’s 1955 founding. Maybe that was due to modesty, or student scholarships totaling more than $150,000; sixty Spring a certain ambivalence about things like sixtieth birthdays (ahem). Conferences and fourteen International Cather Seminars; the Mainly, I think, it was because our everyday responsibilities and restoration of the Red Cloud Opera House; the establishment programs and projects demanded virtually all of the attention of of an operating endowment and strong financial management; our small, dedicated, and chronically overworked staff and team and, among many other accomplishments, the publication of this of volunteers. journal since 1957. But thanks to them we’ve had a great year, marked by our It’s a record we’re proud of and hope to continue. Sure, we’ve biggest and most successful Spring Conference ever and a great had the occasional misstep (do you still have your Willa Cather surge in momentum in our plans to build the National Willa Pioneer Memorial ashtray?), but we do our best. Cather Center. When we did take the time to indulge in a long I started writing this letter in New York City, my home, with look back over our sixty-year history, it seemed that 2015 was a the usual distractions and noises of the city interfering with my year that might do our founders proud. progress (as they do). I am completing it in Nebraska, where I was These were people whose dedication and labor and born and raised, and where I spend more and more of my time. perseverance and generosity formed the strong foundation that The noises and distractions interfering with my progress now still supports us today. We owe them a good deal, so let’s say their are courtesy of the construction crews hard at work creating the names and honor their memory: Mildred Bennett, Carrie Miner National Willa Cather Center from the shell of the historic Moon Sherwood, Jennie Miner Reiher, Harry and Helen Obitz, Frank Block building in Red Cloud. O’Rourke, Josephine Frisbie and L. V. Jacks. Sometime during 2016, our new facility will open, providing The highlights of our first sixty years include the acquisition new archival resources and a grand new setting for the ambitious and preservation of numerous historic properties and objects plans we’re cooking up for the coming years. www.WillaCather.org 1 Cather in Europe, Europe and Cather: The 2014 Symposium in Rome, Italy Andrew Jewell and Mark J. Madigan In Rome, to walk across the street sometimes requires a leap of Another goal of our symposium was to support and faith. Cars and motorcycles stream by, and at many places there promote scholarly and popular interest in Cather beyond the are no lights or crosswalks. So, to get across, those on foot wait borders of North America. While we were successful in that for a small group to gather at the curb and then, unceremoniously, regard, there remains much important work to be done. We step into the stream. The vehicles all stop, without impatience or are still learning about Cather’s influence on various European surprise, and give the walkers the right of way. It doesn’t seem like readers—her work has been translated into most of the major it should work, but it does. European languages—but it appears that in many areas her Planning for the 2014 Willa Cather Symposium in Rome work is not as well known as that of other American writers. required a similar leap of faith. We knew it could be done, but it Some European scholars of American literature have discovered seemed daunting. Could we find the right place? Could we find the Cather and published criticism about her work, and in the resources? Would anybody come? Initial doubts were many and last decade translations of her novels have been published in for a while as we began they flowed into one another. Thankfully, a Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and small group of colleagues had gathered to worry and discuss: John Spanish (as well as Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, and Thai). That is, Murphy, Robert Thacker, Cristina Giorcelli, the two of us, and the Cather’s work is known abroad, but it should be better known. staff of the Willa Cather Foundation, most especially its Executive Working with our international colleagues in Rome was among Director, Ashley Olson. Many others offered encouragement and the most rewarding and enjoyable endeavors of our careers, and support along the way.
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