The volume situates My Ãntonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its reception and legacy. The essays as a whole situate the novel at the cusp of the modern period, marking in myriad ways the novelâs transitional role between nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture. The first section âTranslationâ features writers that reflect on Catherâs curious devaluation of My Ãntoniaâs reception over time; translation issues in Germany, Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novelâs vision of Ãntoniaâs acculturation. The second section âTraditionâ defines Catherâs relationship to modernism and regionalism through her career shifts and changes to the Introduction as well as her narrative technique in marginalizing violence and darkness to the edges of Jimâs consicousness. The third section âTransgenderâ analyzes Catherâs relationship to Hamlin Garlandâs Life on the Prairie, J. M. Barrieâs Peter Pan and the Neverland, and the work of Truman Capote, especially his gay protagoanist Joel Knox in Other Voices, Other Rooms. The fourth section âTranshumanâ deploys work on hysteria to situate Catherâs vision of genderless desire and ecocritical lenses to understand Jim and nature. Finally the last section âTransitionâ discusses Lena Lingardâs presence as a New Woman and gift economies in the novel that underscore the communityâs uneasy transition to twentieth-century capitalism. Gathered in the volume are an international group of scholars who demonstrate the novelâs centrality to womenâs studies, American studies, queer studies, childhood studies, psychoanalysis, ecology, translation and reception, Marxism, narratology, and intertextuality.