Professor''s House

The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern state university who is disillusioned with his wife and daughters, his university, and the materialism of American culture. He longs for Tom Outland, his most brilliant student, who died in World War I.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Willa Cather


• Book I The Family


• Book II Tom Outland's Story


• Book III The Professor


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Melissa J. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Cather Project and is co-editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. She has published widely on American women's writing and authorship, including American Women Authors and Literary Property (2005) and The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Willa Cather
• Assisted by: Homestead Melissa J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198861355
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886135-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form