Tables of Contents

Vol. I (1974)

The Dimensions of the Midwest	David D. Anderson	7
Slave Narrative Turning Midwestern: Deadwood Dick Rides into Difficulties	Ronald Primeau	16
Clarence S. Darrow, Literary Realist: Theory and Practice	Alma J. Payne	36
Vachel Lindsay: The Midwest as Utopia	Blair Whitney	46
The Urban-Rural Vision of Carl Sandburg	Paul J. Ferlazzo	52
A Note on Hemingway as Poet	Linda W. Wagner	58
Earth Mothers, Succubi, and Other Ectoplasmic Spirits: The Women in Sherwood Anderson's Short Stories	William V. Miller	64
Anderson's Twisted Apples and Hemingway's Crips	Paul P. Somers, Jr.	82
Edgar A. Guest: Twentieth Century Paradox	Frances Ewert	98
A Ripening Eye: Wright Morris and the Fields of Vision	Gerald Nemanic	120

Vol II. (1975)

Preface		3
The Uncritical Critics: American Realists and the Lincoln Myth	David D. Anderson	7
The Return of St. Louis' Prodigal Daughter: Kate Chopin After Seventy Years	Joyce Ruddel Ladenson	24
Ross Lockridge, Raintree Country, and the Epic of irony	Gerald C. Nemanic	35
Knights in Disguise: Lindsay and Maiakovski as Poets of the People	Marc Chénetier	47
Floyd Dell: Freedom or Marriage	Gerald L. Marriner	63
The First Nick Romano: The Origins of Knock on Any Door	Robert E. Fleming	80
Community and Self in the Midwest Town: Floyd Dell's Moon-Calf	Park Dixon Goist	88
Lizzie Dahlberg and Eula Varner: Two Modern Perspectives on the Earth Mother	Robert L. Kindrick	93
Compulsive and Monumental: a review essay	Thomas J. Schlereth	112
The Annual Bibliography of Studies in Midwestern Literature for 1973	Donald S. Pady, editor	118

Vol III. (1976)

Preface		3
The Uncritical Critics: American Realists and the Lincoln Myth	David D. Anderson	7
The Return of St. Louis' Prodigal Daughter: Kate Chopin After Seventy Years	Joyce Ruddel Ladenson	24
Ross Lockridge, Raintree Country, and the Epic of irony	Gerald C. Nemanic	35
Knights in Disguise: Lindsay and Maiakovski as Poets of the People	Marc Chénetier	47
Floyd Dell: Freedom or Marriage	Gerald L. Marriner	63
The First Nick Romano: The Origins of Knock on Any Door	Robert E. Fleming	80
Community and Self in the Midwest Town: Floyd Dell's Moon-Calf	Park Dixon Goist	88
Lizzie Dahlberg and Eula Varner: Two Modern Perspectives on the Earth Mother	Robert L. Kindrick	93
Compulsive and Monumental: a review essay	Thomas J. Schlereth	112
The Annual Bibliography of Studies in Midwestern Literature for 1973	Donald S. Pady, editor	118

Vol. IV (1977)

Preface		3
The Queen City and a New Literature	David D. Anderson	7
Midwestern Travel Literature of the Nineteenth Century: Romance and Reality	Douglas A. Noverr	18
The Comic Song in the American Midwest, 1825-1875	Jeremy Mattson	30
The Past is Prologue: Chicago's Early Writing	Kenny J. Williams	56
Norwegian Immigrant Novels Set in Chicago	Gerald Thorson	74
Carl Sandburg, Lyric Poet	John T. Flanagan	89
In Another Country: The Revolt from the Village	Barry Gross	101
The Presence of the Past in the Heartland: Raintree Country Revisited	Joel M. Jones	112
The American Dream: From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Herbert Gold	Ellen Serlen	122
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1975	Donald S. Pady, Editor	138

Vol. V (1978)

Preface		3
The Varieties of Humor in John Hay's Pike County Ballads	John E. Hallwas	7
Edward Eggleston and the Evangelical Consciousness	Madonna C. Kolbenschlag	19
Lucy Monroe's "Chicago Letter" to The Critic, 1893-1896	James Stronks	30
"Awakened and Harmonized:" Edgar Lee Masters' Emersonian Midwest	Ronald Primeau	39
Mid American Poetry in Midwestern Little Magazines	Philip Greasley	50
Dispersion and Direction: Sherwood Anderson, the Chicago Renaissance, and the American Mainstream	David D. Anderson	66
Striving for Power: Hemingway's Classical Neurosis and Creative Force	Jacqueline Tavernier-Corbin	76
"The Divine Average": Contemporary Missouri Verse	Robert L. Kindrick	96
Whatever Happened to Willard Motley? A Documentary	Ray Lewis White	111
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1976	Donald S. Pady, Editor	138

Vol. VI (1979)

Preface		4
Grass/Grassroots—American Metaphor/American Cliché	Emma S. Thornton and Pauline Adams	7
The Midwestern Town in Midwestern Fiction	David D. Anderson	27
The Genteel Poetry of William Dean Howells	Bernard F. Engel	44
Image of Womanhood in the Spoon River Portraits	Evelyn Schroth	62
The Popular Writer, Professors, and the Making of a Reputation: The Case of Carl Sandburg	Paul Ferlazzo	72
Myth and Midwestern Landscape: Sherwood Anderson's Mid-American Chants	Philip Greasley	79
The Family in Booth Tarkington's Growth Trilogy	Charlotte LeGates	88
Two Regional Stories by Don Marquis	John E. Hallwas	100
Fitzgerald's Midwest: "Something Gorgeous Somewhere"—Somewhere Else	Barry Gross	111
Penman for the People: Justice Voelker (Robert Traver)	John C. Hepler	127
Evan S. Connell Jr.'s Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge: A Critical Documentary	Ray Lewis White	141
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1977	Donald S. Pady and Robert Beasecker, Editors	160

Vol. VII (1980)

Preface		5
Daniel Drake, M.D.: The Franklin of the West	David D. Anderson	9
The Poetry of John Howard Bryant	John E. Hallwas	27
Voltairine de Cleyre's Feminism: A Study of Her Theory and Characterization	Marilyn Judith Atlas	40
Spoon River Anthology: An Introduction	Robert Narveson	52
Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods: Toward a New Realism	Mary Anne Ferguson	73
Sherwood Anderson's Many Marriages: A Model of the Most Perilous Journey	Mia Klein	96
Leo Markun: Mrs. Grundy's Bad Boy	William F. Ryan	108
Saxton's Late-Proletarian Triptych: To Chicago and West	Frederick C. Stern	133
Edward Leuders' Clam Lake Papers	John Stark	156
The Early Fiction of William H. Gass: A Critical Commentary	Ray Lewis White	164
Midwestern Regionalist Painting and the Origins of Midwestern Popular Culture	Douglas A. Noverr	178
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1978	Donald S. Pady and Robert Beasecker, Editors	193

Vol. VIII (1981)

Preface		5
Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel Prize	David D. Anderson	9
Ernest Hemingway: A Reader's Perspective	Roger J. Bresnahan	22
The "Figurine" in the China Cabinet: Saul Bellow and the Nobel Prize	Marilyn Judith Atlas	36
The Problem of Unity in The Valley of Shadows	John E. Hallwas	50
Brand Whitlock's Literary Reputation in Belgium, 1917-1934	Paul W. Miller	58
Willa Cather and the "American Metaphysic"	Barry Gross	68
The Evanescence of Wright Morris's The Huge Season	Richard Daverman	79
Consciousness Refracted: Photography and the Imagination in the Works of Wright Morris	Joseph J. Wydeven
Some Observations on Wright Morris's Treatment of "My Kind of People, Self-Sufficient, Self-deprived, Self-unknowing"	Keith Carabine	115
From Conroy to Steinbeck: The Quest for an Idiom of the People in the 1930s	Douglas Wixson	135
The Westering Experience in Fulton County, Indiana: A Historical Study in Midwestern American Culture	Robert Glen Deamer	151
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1979	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady 161

Vol. IX (1982)

Preface		5
John Russell and the Piasa Legend	John E. Hallwas	9
Hamlin Garland: Realist of Old Age	Leland Krauth	23
Twenty Acres of Independence: The Letters of Omar Morse, 1890-1900	James Marshall	38
Another Angle of Willa Cather's Artistic Prism: Impressionistic Character Portraiture in My Anotonia	Edward J. Piacentino	53
Belgian Sources of Brand Whitlock's "French" Expatriate Novels	Paul W. Miller	65
Michigan Proletarian Writers and the Great Depression	David D. Anderson	76
Mark Schorer's Wisconsin Writings	John Stark	98
Ohio Boyhoods: A Study of Adolescence in Novels by Robert McCloskey, Virginia Hamilton, and Don Moser	Linda R. Silver	114
Sinclair Lewis vs. Zane Grey: Mantrap as Satirical Western	Robert E. Fleming	124
The Chicago Literary Times: A Description and a Book Review Index	Ray Lewis White	139
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1980	Editors: Robert Beasecker and Donald Pady	148

Vol. X (1983)

Preface		5
MidAmerica: A Ten-Year Retrospective	Roger J. Bresnahan	9
Captain Henry Whiting: A Poet in Michigan Territory	Lawrence Dawson	24
Muscular Innocence in the Midwestern Work Ethic	Bernard F. Engel	38
A Homestead Countermyth and the Prairie Realists	James Marshall	54
From Memory to Meaning: The Boys' Stories of WIlliam Dean Howells, Clarence Darrow, and Sherwood Anderson	David D. Anderson	69
The Kindred Spirits of William James and Edgar Lee Masters	Robert D. Narveson	85
A Midwesterner in the Maelstrom of History: Thomas Boyd's Characterization of William Hicks	Douglas A. Noverr	99
Sherwood Anderson's Perhaps Women: the "Story in Brief"	Welford Dunaway Taylor	110
Edward Dahlberg's Kansas City: Two Views	Robert L. Kindrick	115
"Beauty Breaking Through the Husks of Life": Sherwood Anderson and James Wright	Leland Krauth	124
James Jones' Trilogy, or Is War Really Hell?	Ellen Serlen Uffen	139
From Carl Pretzel to Slats Grobnik: A Study of Chicago Humor	Kenny J. Williams	152
Mike Royko: Midwestern Satirist	Paul P. Somers, Jr.	177
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1981	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	187

Vol. XI (1984)

Preface		5
Beyond Brutality: Forging Midwestern Urban-Industrial Mythology	Philip A. Geasley	9
Willa Cather's One of Ours: A Novel of the GreatPlains and the Great War	Raymond J. Wilson III	20
Galena in Boom and Decline: Jane Ayer Fairbank's The Bright Land	May Jean DeMarr	34
Red Pens from the Village: The Anvil and The Left, Midwestern Little Magazines	Douglas Wixson	42
Sherwood Anderson, Chicago, and the Midwestern Myth	David D. Anderson	56
Harlan Hatcher's Midwestern Novels	Roger J. Bresnahan	69
Vera Caspary's Chicago, Symbol and Setting	Jane S. Bakerman	81
"A Visioned End": Edgar Lee Masters and William Stafford	Leland Krauth	91
James Purdy's Early Life in Ohio and His Early Short Stories	Paul W. Miller	108
Ohio's Reaction to William Dean Howells	William D. Baker	117
Raintree County and the Critics of '48	Ray Lewis White	149
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1982	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	171
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		back cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		back cover

Vol. XII (1985)

In Memoriam: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson	David D. Anderson	5
Hjalmar Holand, the Kensington Runestone, Myth, and History	Robert D. Narveson	9
Charles M. Russell: Literary Humorist	James C. Austin	22
Rich Man, Poor Man: Jane Ayer Fairbank's "Suffrage Novel"	Mary Jean DeMarr	32
The Village Grown Up: Sherwood Anderson and Louis Bromfield	Roger J. Bresnahan	45
Sherwood Anderson's Unpublished Stories	William V. Miller	53
James Thurber's Midwest in My Life and Hard Times	Douglas A. Noverr	59
A Split Image of the American Heritage: The Poetry of Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke	Charles R. Campbell	70
The Limits of Realism in James Purdy's First Ohio Novel, the Nephew	Paul W. Miller	83
Wright Morris's Earthly Music: The Women of Plains Song	Ellen Serlen Uffen	97
The "Populist" Politics of Gwendolyn Brooks's Poetry	Frederick C. Stern	111
Living "Openly and With Dignity" - Sara Paretsky's New-Boiled Feminist Fiction	Jane L. Bakerman	120
The Dean's Chicago	David D. Anderson	136
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	148
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		back cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		back cover

Vol. XIII (1986)

Preface		5
Gwendolyn Brooks's "Afrika" The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Philip A. Greasley	9
Civil War Politics in the Noels of David Ross Locke	Ronald M. Grosh	19
Reborn in Babel: Immigrant Characters and Types in Early Chicago Fiction	Guy Szuberla	31
The Johari Window: A Perspective on The Spoon River Anthology	Marcia Noe	49
From Region to the World: Two Allusions in Cather's A Lost Lady an Honorable Mention essay	Bruce Baker	61
Ruth Suckow's Iowa "Nice Girls"	Mary Jean DeMarr	69
Paris of the 1920s Through Midwestern Novelists' Eyes	Paul W. Miller	84
Habits of the Heart in Raintree County an Honorable Mention essay	Park Dixon Goist	94
The Oriental Connection: Zen and Representations of the Midwest in the Collected Poems of Lucien Stryke	Daniel L. Guillory	107
Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, and the Territories of the Spirit	David D. Anderson	116
Farewell to the Regional Columnist: The Meaning of Bob Greene's Success an Honorable Mention essay	Richard Shereikis	125
Can These, Too, be Midwestern? Studies of Two Filipino Writers	Roger J. Bresnahan	134
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1984	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	148
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		back cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		back cover

Vol. XIV (1987)

Preface		5
A Whole Bible The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Sylvia Wheeler	9
Nebraska's Cultural Desert: Willa Cather's Early Short Stories The Midwestern Heritage Prize Essay	Bruce P. Baker	12
The Safe Middle West: Escape to and Escape from Home an Honorable Mention essay	Margaret D. Stuhr	18
Learning the Land: The Development of A Sense of Place in the Prairie Midwest	Elizabeth Raymond	28
Edith Thomas and Hamlin Garland: Canaan and Rome	Bernard F. Engel	41
"Naturalization" and Bonding in Dreiser's "Naturalistic" Representations of Sister Carrie's Women	Laura Niesen de Abruña	51
The Ethnic Neighborhood in Chicago Fiction: Maitland to Motley	Guy Szuberla	58
"As His Home Town Knew Him:" Sherwood Anderson's Last Trip Home	Ray Lewis White	74
Sherwood Anderson's Poor White and the Grotesques Become Myth	David D. Anderson	89
William Maxwell's Lincoln, Illinois an Honorable Mention essay	Richard Shereikis	101
Sam Shepard's Child is Buried Somewhere in Illinois an Honorable Mention essay	Park Dixon Goist	113
Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon: The Contemporary Oral Tale	Philip Greasley	126
Images of Detroit in The Dollmaker	James Seaton	137

Vol. XV (1988)

Preface		5
All Winter the Snow The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Diane Garden	9
Failure and the American Mythos: Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Marcia Noe	11
Humility and Literature: Is there a Plains Style? An Honorable Mention Essay	Jeffrey Gundy	19
"You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!": Failure and Promise in Sherwood Anderson's "Death"	Michael Wentworth	27
The Community in Winesburg, Ohio: The Rhetoric of Selfhood	Clarence Lindsay	39
Ruth Suckow's New Hope: A Symbolic Parable	Mary Jean DeMarr	48
The Search for Control: Eliot, Hemingway, and In Our Time	John Rohrkemper, Karen L. Gutmann	59
Chicago in Studs Lonigan: Neighborhood and Nation	Peter A. Carino	72
Hemingway and Henderson in the High Savannas, or Two Midwestern Moderns and the Myth of Africa	David D. Anderson	84
The Ladies of Waynesboro (a.k.a. Xenia), Ohio	Ellen Serlen Uffen	101
Renovating the House of Fiction: Structural Diversity in Jane Smiley's Duplicate Keys	Jane S. Bakerman	111
"Immediate Effects and Ultimate Tendencies": Users of Lincoln-Caesar Analogies by American Writers	Robert D. Narveson	121
Early American Literary Realism I: The National Scene	Ronald M. Grosh	132
The Annual Bibliography	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	145
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XVI (1989)

Preface		5
Dependable Imperfections The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Maril Nowak	9
Mary Hartwell Catherwood's Two Beaver Island Stories The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Kenneth A. Robb	11
Great Lakes Maritime Fiction An Honorable Mention Essay	Victoria Brehm	19
Issues and Images in Jacksonian Politics: David Crockett in the Midwest	Royce E. Flood	29
Indications of a Worldly Spirit: Religious Opposition to the Arts in Early Cincinnati, 1815-1830	Dennis P. Walsh	39
Religion of the Real: Baker Brownell's Earth is Enough	John E. Hallwas	54
A Loss of Innocence: Ruth Suckow's The John Wood Case	Mary Jean DeMarr	65
Sherwood Anderson in Fiction	David D. Anderson	80
The Poetry of Paul Engle: A Voice of the Midwest An Honorable Mention Essay	Robert Ward	94
The U-land in Siouxland: A Minnesotan's View	Jill B. Gidmark	103
Going Sour in the Heartland: David J. Michael's A Blow to the Head	Jane S. Bakerman	115
Early American Literary Realism II: The Midwestern Matrix	Ronald M. Grosh	122
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1987	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	131
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XVII (1990)

Preface		5
In this Night's Rain The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Alice Friman	9
To Sustain the Bioregion: Michigan Poets of Place The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	William Barillas	10
Breath of Life: William Maxwell's Midwestern Adolescents An Honorable Mention Essay	Richard Shereikis	34
Lincoln and Civil Religion An Honorable Mention Essay	James Seaton	44
An Aesthetic of Moralism	Bernard F. Engel	52
Sarah T. Barrett Bolton: Nineteenth Century Hoosier Poet	Mary Jean DeMarr	60
Gene Stratton-Porter: Women's Advocate	Mary De Jong Obuchowski	74
Selected Midwestern Writers and Populist Movement	Dorys Crow Grover	83
Sherwood Anderson Remembered	David D. Anderson	91
The Politics of Piety: Gamesmanship in the Fiction of J. F. Powers	Marcia Noe	106
Early American Realism III: Patterns of Anomaly	Ronald M. Grosh	118
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1988	Editors: Robert Beasecker, Donald Pady	125
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XVIII (1991)

Preface		5
Embracing the Fall The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Margo LaGattuta	9
This Seven's The Heaven The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Maria Bruno	10
Irving Babbitt: Midwestern Intellectual The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	James Seaton	22
New England, Ohio's Western Reserve, and the New Jerusalem in the West	David D. Anderson	31
Tracking the Rock Island Road	David L. Newquist	44
Four Midwestern Novelists' Response to French Inquiries on Populism	Dorys Crow Grover	59
French Criticism of Ernest Hemingway: A Brief Survey (1932-89)	Paul W. Miller	69
An Iowa Woman's Life: Ruth Suckow's Cora	Mary Jean De Maar	80
Algren's Outcasts: Shakespearean Fools and the Prophet in a Neon Wilderness An Honorable Mention Essay	James A. Lewin	97
Nietzsche, Keillor, and the Religious Heritage of Lake Wobegon An Honorable Mention Essay	William Ostrem	115
Paretsky, Turow, and the Importance of Symbolic Ethnicity	Guy Szuberla	124
Scenes from the South Side: The Chicago Fiction of Norbert Blei An Honorable Mention Essay	Richard Shereikis	136
Ducks and Sex in David Mamet's Chicago	Park Dixon Goist	143
Timeless Questions, Modern Phrasing: Susan Taylor Chehak, A New Midwestern Voice	Jane S. Bakerman	153

Vol. XIX (1992)

Preface		5
Shrill Voices Counting The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Daniel James Sundahl	9
Garbage Day The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Etta C. Abrahams	11
Hemingway's Art of Self-Exculpation in Life and in The Garden of Eden The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Paul W. Miller	27
Origins of the Midwestern Landscape: Survey and Settlement	William Barillas	36
A Splendid Little Imperialist War	Bernard F. Engel	48
Sexual Stereotypes in Ruth Suckow's The Kramer Girls	Mary Jean DeMarr	61
Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sherwood Anderson: Confluence or Influence?	John Getz	74
Plainer Speaking: Sherwood Anderson's Non-Fiction and the "New Age"	Robert Dunne	87
Sherwood Anderson, The Double Dealer, and The New Orleans Literary Renaissance	David D. Anderson	96
The Radical Tradition of Algren's Chicago: City on the Make An Honorable Mention Essay	James A. Lewin	106
Visual Artistry in Wright Morris's Plains Song for Female Voices An Honorable Mention Essay	Joseph J. Wydeven	116
"The Gleaming Obsidian Shard:" Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres	Jane S. Bakerman	127
The Midwest as Metaphor: Four Asian Writers	Roger J. Bresnahan	138
The Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1990	Robert Beasecker and Donald Pady, editors	145
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XX (1993)

Preface		5
In Good Time The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Sharon Klander	9
Dining Car The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Linda Ryeguild-Forsythe	11
"A Walk Through the Paradise Garden:" Vachel Lindsay's Idea of Kansas The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Michael Wentworth	26
Not for White Men Only: The Methodology Behind the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature An Honorable Mention Essay	Robert Dunne	40
The Landscape and Sense of the Past in WIlliam Dean Howells's	Eugene H. Pattison	48
Peattie's Precipice and the "Settlement House" Novel	Guy Szuberla	59
Another Look at Community in Winesburg, Ohio	Clarence Lindsay	76
The Dramatic Landscape of Sherwood Anderson's Fiction	David D. Anderson	89
Hemingway's Posthumous Fiction, 1961-87: A Rorschach Test for Critics	Paul W. Miller	98
Curt Johnson: Chicago Novelist and Publisher	R. Craig Sautter	108
Midwestern Literature as the Ground for Parody in William Gass's "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country"	Laurel Bush	118
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1991	Robert Beasecker, Editor	127
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXI (1994)

Preface		5
The Dead of Winter The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Edward Haworth Hoeppner	9
Five Portraits The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Christopher Stieber	11
Love, Loss, and Renewal: Abraham Lincoln's Letters of Condolence The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Ronald F. Dorr	23
MidAmerica: The Second Decade	Marcia Noe	39
The Spirit of Place as a Usable Past in William Cullen Bryant's "The Prairies"	Keith Fynaardt	50
Mark Twain Among the Indians An Honorable Mention Essay	David L. Newquist	59
Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Midwestern Modernism	David D. Anderson	73
Meridel Le Sueur, "Corn Village," and Literary Pragmatism	James M. Bohnlein	82
Hemingway's Posthumous Fiction: From Brimming Vault to Bare Cupboard	Paul W. Miller	98
"The Darkness of the Moment": Two Short Stories by Ruth Suckow	Mary Jean DeMarr	112
A Jew From East Jesus: The Yiddishkeit of Nelson Algren An Honorable Mention Essay	James A. Lewin	122
James Wright and the Native American Spirit of Place	William Barillas	132
A Farm Under a Lake: What's Happened to Huck's Territory?	Margaret Rozga	143
Soy City Voices: An Oral History of Workers in Decatur, Illinois	Dan Guillory	154
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1992	Robert Beasecker, Editor	171
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXII (1995)

Preface		5
Midnight in the Kitchen The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Mary Ann Samyn	9
George Ade at the "Alfalfa European Hotel" The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Guy Szuberla	10
The Romance of Suffering: Midwesterners Remember the Homestead	Liahna Babener	25
The Public Helga Skogsbergh and the Prive Johan Gidmark: Swedish Immigrants, Wisconsin Homesteaders	Jill Gidmark	35
Upton Sinclair: Never Forgotten	Dorys Crow Grover	41
Midwestern Voices and the Marginal Canon: Reconsidering Proletarian Fiction	James W. Boehnlein	50
The Indian Drum and Its Authors: A Reconsideration	Mary DeJong Obuschowski	60
Tone and Technology in Harriet Monroe's "The Turbine"	Marilyn J. Atlas	69
Vachel Lindsay's Crusade for Cultural Literacy	Lisa Woolley	83
Wanderers and Sojourners: Sherwood Anderson and the People of Winesburg	David D. Anderson	89
First Crop: Pioneers of Poetry in the Red River Valley of the North	Lawrence Moe	97
Clifford D. Simak's Use of the Midwest in Science Fiction	Mary Jean DeMarr	108
"This country has so many ways of humiliating": Bharati Mukherjee's Depiction of Midwestern Community Values	Roger J. Bresnahan	122
Ecocriticism and Midwestern Literary Studies: Some Points of Departure (and Arrival)	William Barillas	128
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature	Robert Beasecker, editor	139
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXIII (1996)

Preface		5
Red Berries The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Terrence Glass	9
"Beyond Human Understanding:" Confusion and the Call in Winesburg, Ohio The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Thomas Wetzel	11
Fire in the Badlands The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Dave Diamond	28
The Spirit of Place; the Place of Spirit An Honorable Mention Essay	David L. Newquist	47
The Regional Form as a Commodified Site in Hamlin Garland's Main-Travelled Roads	John L. Sutton	56
The Roles of Chicago in the Careers of Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne	Marilyn J. Atlas	64
Maid or Writer: The Rhetoric of Conformity and Rebellion in Miss Lulu Bett An Honorable Mention Essay	Lynn Rhoades	73
The Structure of Sherwood Anderson's Short Story Collections	David D. Anderson	90
Anti-Heroic Theme and Structure in Midwestern World War I novels from Cather to Hemingway	Paul W. Miller	99
Aeroplane in Furs: The Language of Masochism and the Will to Submit in "Cape Hatteras"	Patrick Hurley	109
The Blues in Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter	Barbara Burkhardt	114
Gwendolyn Brooks at Eighty: A Retrospective	Philip Greasley	124
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1994	Robert Beasecker, editor	136
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXIV (1997)

Preface		5
Planting Asparagus The Midwest Poetry Festival Prize Poem	Rod Phillips	9
Meridel Le Sueur, Earth Goddesses and Engels's Approach to the Woman Question The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Nora Ruth Roberts	10
Songs I'll Not Hear Again The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Jim Gorman	18
Hardly Flyover Country: Recent Developments in Midwestern Studies An Honorable Mention Essay	Edward Watts	36
"Stayin' with the Lan'": Midwest, Migration and Metaphors	Suzy Clarkson Holstein	46
Mad About Books: Eugene Field's The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac	Robert A Shaddy	53
Feminist Discourse and the Alien Word: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl	James M. Boehnlein	70
Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson - and Ivan Turgenev	Paul W. Miller	80
The Structure of Sherwood Anderson's Short Story Collections	David D. Anderson	90
Consequential Identity in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms	Clarence Lindsay	99
Louis Bromfield in France	Dorys Grover	115
Growing Up in Detroit: Jim Daniels's M-80	Janet Ruth Heller	122
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1995	Robert Beasecker, editor	133
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXV (1998)

Preface: The First Twenty-five Years of MidAmerica		5
Janey Gets Locked in the Bohemian Cemetery for the Night The Midwest Festival Prize Poem	Ann Bardens	11
Life in Prairie Land: Eliza Farnum's Transcendental Text The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Nancy McKinney	13
Ghost Dogs The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	David Diamond	25
When the Windigo Spirit Swept Across the Plains...: Ojibway Perceptions of the Settlement of the Midwest	Jean Strandness	36
Sherwood Anderson's Chants of the Mississippi Valley	Bernard F. Engel	50
Visual Imagery in Winesburg, Ohio	David D. Anderson	61
The Small Town and Urban Midwest in Ring Lardner's	Douglas A. Noverr	68
The Midwestern Expatriates: Why They Left, What They Remembered	Roger J. Bresnahan	78
The Garden of Eden as a Response to Tender is the Night	Robert E. Fleming	84
The Question of Meridel Le Sueur's Lost Patrimony	Douglas Wixson	96
"[W]ritten Along the Margin and not the Page Itself": The Early Short Fiction of Josephine W. Johnson An Honorable Mention Essay	Mark Graves	109
Eva K. Anglesburg of the Level Land	Lawrence Moe	119
Photographing the Ruins: Wright Morris and Midwestern Gothic	Rodney P. Rice	128
Living in Brainard: The Memory of Place in Dan Gerber's Grass Fires	Todd Davis	155
(Mis)reading the Region: Midwestern Innocence in the Fiction of Jay McInerney	Marcia Noe	162
Roadtrip to Winesburg	Paul P. Somers, Jr.	175
Violent Silences in Three Works of David Mamet	Jill B. Gidmark	184
Sand Country Almanac and the Evolution of Ecological Conscience	Philip A. Greasley	193
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1996	Robert Beasecker, editor	204
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXVI (1999)

Preface: The First Twenty-five Years of MidAmerica		5
Janey Gets Locked in the Bohemian Cemetery for the Night The Midwest Festival Prize Poem	Ann Bardens	11
Life in Prairie Land: Eliza Farnum's Transcendental Text The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Nancy McKinney	13
Ghost Dogs The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	David Diamond	25
When the Windigo Spirit Swept Across the Plains...: Ojibway Perceptions of the Settlement of the Midwest	Jean Strandness	36
Sherwood Anderson's Chants of the Mississippi Valley	Bernard F. Engel	50
Visual Imagery in Winesburg, Ohio	David D. Anderson	61
The Small Town and Urban Midwest in Ring Lardner's	Douglas A. Noverr	68
The Midwestern Expatriates: Why They Left, What They Remembered	Roger J. Bresnahan	78
The Garden of Eden as a Response to Tender is the Night	Robert E. Fleming	84
The Question of Meridel Le Sueur's Lost Patrimony	Douglas Wixson	96
"[W]ritten Along the Margin and not the Page Itself": The Early Short Fiction of Josephine W. Johnson An Honorable Mention Essay	Mark Graves	109
Eva K. Anglesburg of the Level Land	Lawrence Moe	119
Photographing the Ruins: Wright Morris and Midwestern Gothic	Rodney P. Rice	128
Living in Brainard: The Memory of Place in Dan Gerber's Grass Fires	Todd Davis	155
(Mis)reading the Region: Midwestern Innocence in the Fiction of Jay McInerney	Marcia Noe	162
Roadtrip to Winesburg	Paul P. Somers, Jr.	175
Violent Silences in Three Works of David Mamet	Jill B. Gidmark	184
Sand Country Almanac and the Evolution of Ecological Conscience	Philip A. Greasley	193
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1996	Robert Beasecker, editor	204
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXVII (2000)

Preface		5
Hale Bopp The Midwest Festival Prize Poem	Diane Kendig	9
Novelists and Biographers: The Sinclair Lewis, August Derleth and Mark Shorer Triangle The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Kenneth B. Grant	11
Holy Cross and "He's So Fine" The Midwest Fiction Award Prize Story	Paul P. Somers	21
Drowning in a Sea of Commodities: Consumer Capitalism and Middle-Class Culture in Fuller's Cliff Dwellers and With the Procession	Kevin W. Jett	33
"[T]he Significance of Beauty of Ordinary Things:" The Nonfiction of Josephine W. Johnson An Honorable Mention Essay	Mark Graves	49
Tramping Across America: The Travel Writings of Vachel Lindsay An Honorable Mention Essay	Dan Guillory	59
A Germain Main Street and More: Heinrich Mann's Der Certain (1918) and Sinclair Lewis's Satirical Novels of the 1920s	Frederick Betz	66
The Allure and Illusion of the East in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Basil Stories	Kavita S. Hatwalkar	78
Sherwood Anderson's Hometown	David D. Anderson	84
David Mamet's Trivialization of Feminism and Sexual Harassment in Oleanna	Janet Ruth Heller	93
The Issue of Literacy in America: Slave Narratives and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye	Marilyn J. Atlas	106
Critiquing the Culture and Subverting the Agrarian Myth in Midwestern America: Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World An Honorable Mention Essay	Michael Lasley	119
Mary Swander's Midwest	Mary Obuchowski	126
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1998	Robert Beasecker, Editor	133
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXVIII (2001)

Preface		4
Out With the Monarch, the Vole and the Toad The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Patricia Clark	7
They Labour in Vain The Paul Somers Prize Story	Claire van Breemen Downes	8
Windy McPherson's Son: Sowing the Seeds of Winesburg's Twisted Apples The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Robert Dunne	13
Blanche Roosevelt and the Three-Decker Novel An Honorable Mention Essay	Paul W. Miller	23
Male and Female Narratives of Selfhood in Winesburg Ohio	Clarence Lindsay	34
Patty Jane's House of Curl: Restyling Women's Literature in Midwestern Classroom	Jill Barnum	62
Twentieth-Century Children's Books of Nineteenth Century Michigan	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	68
Stylistic Features of Early Red River Valley Poetry	Lawrence Moe	74
East Meets Midwest in Caroline Kirkland's Western Clearings	Denise Kay Jacobs	87
August Derleth and Poetry Out of Wisconsin	Kenneth B. Grant	98
Something is Rotten in the State of - Missouri: Hamlet, Claudius, and Huckleberry Finn	John Rohrkemper	104
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature: 1999	Robert Beasecker, Editor	116
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXIX (2002)

Preface		4
Purple The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Leonora Smith	6
The Elvis Jesus—Chapter One—The Great Magician Dazzles the Badlands The Paul Somers Prize Story	David Diamond	8
Fact in Fiction: Historical Novels Set in Pioneer Minnesota	Leslie Czechowski	17
The Alienated Souls of Josephine W. Johnson	Mark Graves	34
Magic in an Airstream Trailer: Narrative Voice in Peace Like a River	Jill Barnum	47
Gwendolyn Brooks's Dramatic Monologues in A Street in Bronzeville	Janet Ruth Heller	54
Eugene Field and the World's Biggest Literary Funeral	Thomas Pribek	61
The Hawk, the Raven, and the Baby Lark: August Derleth's Relationship with the Edgar Lee Master Family	Kenneth B. Grant	67
A Rereading of Black Hawk's Autobiography	David Newquist	78
The Red River Valley and the Poetry of Place	Lawrence Moe	91
Bellow Remembers in "Something to Remember Me By"	Guy Szuberla	103
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature	Robert Beasecker	113
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXX (2003)

Preface		4
Winter Wear The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Rane R. Arroyo	6
Norman Rockwell Slept Here The Paul Somers Prize Story	Jim Gorman	8
In Good Company: The Midwestern Literary Community and the Short Fiction of Ruth Suckow and Hamlin Garland The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Jeffrey Swenson	20
Drawing from Memory: John T. McCutcheon Draws Chicago and the Midwest An Honorable Mention Essay	Guy Szuberla	32
The Mystery of Identity: The Journey from Constructedness to Essence in Sherwood Anderson's Poor White	Mark Peter Buechsel	54
For Shakespeare, Chicago, and the Ghost of Reform	James A. Lewin	65
Louis Bromfield and the Idea of the Middle	Jayne Waterman	73
Josephine W. Johnson: The Second Short Story Collection and Beyond	Mark Graves	85
The Virgin of Bennington: Eastern or Midwestern?	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	94
Thomas McGrath: Another Agrarian Revolt	Glenn Sheldon	100
G.K. Chesterton's Midwestern Legacy	Russ Bodi	112
Law and Literature: The Case of the Anatomy of a Murder	James Seaton	123
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2011	Robert Beasecker	134
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXI (2004)

Preface		4
Astrid, Siggy, and Bert The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Patricia Clark	7
Shag Carpet The Paul Somers Prize Story	Michael Kula	8
A Heart Enshrouded in the Landscape: An Impressionist Reading of "Big Two-Hearted River" The Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Luchen Li	17
Twain, Howells, and the Origin of Midwestern Drama	David Radavich	25
Local Color, Local News, and "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"	Guy Szuberla	43
Theodore Dreiser, Thermodynamics, and the "Manly Man": An Analysis of Gender Relations in the Cowperwood Trilogy	Barbara Lindquist	57
Stiffed: David Mamet's Men	John Rohrkemper	69
The Strength of the Midwestern Proletariat: Meridel LeSueur and the Ideal Proletarian Literature	Sara Kosiba	80
Claiming a Place in the Nation: Wisconsin Women Experience the Civil War Through Private Writing	Dana Edwards	91
Portraits of the American Heartland at the Crossroads of the Counterculture	Dominic Ording	104
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2002	Robert Beasecker	115
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXII (2005)

Preface		4
Lost Luggage The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Claire van Breemen Downes	7
Review Essay: How Midwestern Literature Can Help Us All Get Along	Marcia Noe	8
Art and the Immigrant: The Other as Muse in Cather's My Ántonia and Rølvaag's Boat of Longing	Jeffrey Swenson	16
Religion and Literature in Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather	James Seaton	31
Embracing Contraries: The Competing Narratives of Tom McGrath's Letter to An Imaginary Friend, Part One	James M. Boehnlein	38
August Derleth's Self-Promotion	Kenneth B. Grant	46
The Nature of Learning in Garrison Keillor's "Drowning 1954" and "After a Fall"	Janet Ruth Heller	53
Suburban Self-Alienation: Louis Bromfield's Mr. Smith	Jayne Waterman	61
A Dentist No More: The Destruction of Masculinity in McTeague	Denise Howard Long	67
Transformation of the World: The Metaphor of Fairy Tale in the Poetry of Lisel Mueller	Linda Nemec Foster	78
Thoroughly Modern Carrie: Dreiser, Realism and the Historical Moment	Melanie England	88
African American Drama from the Midwest	David Radavich	95
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature	Robert Beasecker	120
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXIII (2006)

March Afternoon Tea The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Ellen Arl	7
An Illusion of Understanding: Listeners and Tellers in Sherwoods Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Carson McCullers's The Heart is A Lonely Hunter The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Michael Merva	9
William Dean Howells and Humanistic Criticism The Jill Barnum Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	James Seaton	21
The Midwest, The New Yorker,The Onion and Something Funny	Guy Szuberla	31
Rock/River: Lorine Niedecker's Objectivist Poetics of the Natural World	Jonathan Ivry	48
The Matriarchal Mentor: Edna Ferber's Emma McChesney as both "New" and "Woman"	Scott D. Emmert	66
Wisconsin: Land of Strange Beings and Ancient Gods	Sara Kosiba	78
The Divided World and Conflicted Self revealed in Stewart Edward White's The Blazed Trail and The Unobstructed Universe	Paul W. Miller	90
Religion and Literature in Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather	James Seaton	103
Transformation of the World: The Metaphor of Fairy Tale in the Poetry of Lisel Mueller	Linda Nemec Foster	111
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2004	Robert Beasecker	121
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

XXXIV (2007)

Preface
Tree of Heaven The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Todd Davis	7
At the Foot of Mt. Etna The Paul Somers Prize Story	Maria Frances Bruno	9
Murder in Rustbelt City: A Return to Lorain, Ohio The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Nick Kowalczyk	18
Native on Native: Place in the Letters of Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright The Jill Barnum Midwest Heritage Prize Essay	Christian P. Knoeller	34
The Midwesterner as Out-of-Towner	Guy Szuberla	44
Dramatizing the Midwest	David Radavich	59
Midwestern History and Memory in Robinson's Gilead	Beth Widmaier Capo	80
Reading Hamlin Garland's The Book of the American Indian	Matthew Low	87
Tell Me Over and Over Again: The Gendering of the Vietnam War and the Cycles of Trauma in Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods	Roy Seeger	97
Shadows on the Rock: Cather's Anodyne of Hope: Cecile Dispenses and Receives	Susan A. Schiller	106
Life Writing/Writing a Culture: Laura Ingalls Wilder	Susan Larkin	118
Editing with Herb Martin	David Shevin	126
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2005	Robert Beasecke	133
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		Inside Back Cover
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXV (2008)

Preface
Yes The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Edward Morin	8
Diminishing Returns The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Roy Seeger	10
Raised in a Corn Palace The Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose	Dawn Comer	12
Doctor and Patient The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Stephanie Carpenter	23
John Neihardt Writes: Textual Appropriates of Indigenous Storytelling The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Matthew Low	34
Steve Tesich's Four Friends and Summer Crossing	Guy Szuberla	44
The "Middle" in Diane Johnson's MidAmerica: The Space in Between	Carolyn A. Durham	57
The Art of Atonement: The Emergence of the Jewish Character in William Maxwell's Short Fiction	Gretchen Comba	66
Music and the Spirit of Tragedy in Hamlin Garland's "Up the Coolly": A Nietzschean Reading	Mark Buechsel	80
Romancing the Desiring-Machine: Edna Ferber's Cimarron and Sanora Babb's The Lost Traveler	Douglas Wixson	92
A Mystical Midwest: Louise Erdrich's Tracks and the Midwestern Tradition	Nancy Bunge	106
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2006	Robert Beasecker	115
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		175
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXVI (2009)

Preface
The Time I Took Patsy Higgins Up to Holy Redeemer The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Mary Minock	8
Fella with an Umbrella: Finding Joy on the Autism Spectrum The Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose	Dawn Comer	11
"Holy Moses!": The Pit, Curtis Jadwin and the Documentary Hypothesis The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Richmond B. Adams	28
Wright Morris's Chicago The Jill Barnum Midwestern Heritage Prize Essay	Joseph J. Wydeven	41
Cincinnatus, Kris Columbus, Dad Detroit, and Other Cartoon Icons	Guy Szuberla	52
Metafiction on Main Street: Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Days	Rod Rice	70
No Homecoming for Soldiers" Young Hemingway's Return to and Flight from the Midwest	John J. McKenna	83
Ray Bradbury's Tale of Two Cities: An Essential Message for a Technologically Dominated Society	Loren Logsdon	93
"We Represent the End of Race": Uncovering Langston Hughes's Jeremiadic Discourse	Willie J. Harrell, Jr.	107
Macabre and Modern Sorcery: "The Cat that Lived at the Ritz" and "The Apothecary" as Antecedents of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"	David FitzSimmons	128
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2007	Robert Beasecker	142
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		200
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

Vol. XXXVII (2010)

Preface		8
Cutting the Cord or Leaving Factory The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Paul Stebleton	10
The First Vision of Baseball The Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose	James Marlow	14
"Accentuated by the Wavering Uncertain Light": Sherwood Anderson's Construction of Rural Modernity The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Andy Oler	24
Robert Vivian's Tall Grass Trilogy: A Critical Introduction	Joseph J. Wydeven	35
Sherwood Anderson: Mentor of American Racial Identity	Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland	46
The Grammar of Segregation in the Sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks	Margaret Rozga	63
Cross-Examining the Myth of Southern Chivalry: Gwendolyn Brooks's Emmett Till Poems	Marc Seals	74
The Heartland of Susan Glaspell's Plays	David Radavich	81
"It Might Be Something Awful": The Movement of Sex in the Plays of William Inge	Michael Schwartz	95
Michael Cunningham's Introspective and Teacherly Narrators in A Home at the End of the World	Dominic Ording>	106
The Late Twentieth-Century Rise of Regionalism: A Key to Louise Erdrich's Success	Jennifer M. Holly Wells	116
Mary Swander's The Girls on the Roof and the Transformation of Terror	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	127
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2008	Robert Beasecker	133
Catch up on Midwestern Literature		194
Conference and Awards		195
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		196
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

XXXVIII (2011)

Preface
Catch up on Midwestern Literature		8
SSML Conference		9
Open Tuning The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem	Christian Knoeller	10
A Bride of the Great War The Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose	David B. Schock	12
Old Blue Hat The David Diamond Student Writing Prize	Scott Michael Atkinson	19
Up in Michigan: A Review Essay	Marcia Noe	24
Mentoring American Racial Identity: Sherwood Anderson's Lessons to Ernest Hemingway	Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland	28
The Narrative Impulse in the Works of Charles E. Burchfield	Joseph J. Wydeven	41
Opposition Over Here: World War I Fiction in The Midland	Scott D. Emmert	59
Craig Rice's Chicago and J.J. Malone	Guy Szuberla	69
"Living Fifty-fifty": Gender Dynamics in the Plays of Rachel Crothers	David Radavich	82
Questioning Ideals of Midwestern Escapism: Philip Roth's Indignation	Leigh Gardner	93
Dante's Divine Comedy and Bradbury's Farenheit 451: Dynamic Stories of Awakening, Enlightenment, and Redemption	Keith Tookey and Loren Logsdon	104
Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2009	Robert Beasecker	118
Recipients of the Mark Twain Award		181
Recipients of the MidAmerica Award		Back Cover

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