Hayes, Georgiana Colby2014-04-042014-04-0419341934b14768367https://hdl.handle.net/2144/8260This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universityen-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictionsWilla Cather's retreat from reality: an historical treatment of her novels showing the development of her essential asceticismThesis/Dissertation