My Antonia (1918): Library Resources

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Full text of Cather's My Ántonia is available on the Web at:

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Print copies are also available in Truxal Library.

Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Willa Cather's My Ántonia. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers [vol 1]
• American Women Writers [vol 1]
• Contemporary Authors [vols 104, 128]
  
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 1]
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• Encyclopedia of American Social History
• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
• Great Lives from History: American Women Series
• Masterplots [vol 7]
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• Modern American Literature [vols 1, 4, 5, 6]
  
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• Notable American Novelists [vol 1]
• Novels for Students [vol 2]
• A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 11, 31, 99, 132, 152] - check under My Ántonia in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 28] - locate the topical essay "The American Frontier in Literature"
  • [vol 50] - locate the topical essay "Madness in Twentieth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 82] - locate the topical essay "Sex in Literature"
  • [vol 94] - locate the topical essay "Women in Modern Literature"
  • [vol 132] - locate the "Special Commissioned Entry on Willa Cather"
  • [vol 182] - locate the topical essay "American Literary Naturalism"
  • [vol 206] - locate the topical essay "American Immigrant Literature"
    

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