Midwestern Miscellany

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VII (1979)

Preface		3
Mary Hartwell Catherwood's Disguised Handbook of Feminism	Peggy B. Treece	7
Back to Mitchell County	Clarence A. Andrews	15
Michigan's Forgotten Son—James Oliver Curwood	John Hepler	25
Spoon River's "Epilogue"	Herb Russell	34
"From East-Side to South-Side with Love": The Friendship of Sherwood Anderson and Paul Rosenfeld	David D. Anderson	41
Siouxland Panorama: Frederick Manfred's Green Earth	Joseph M. Flora	56

VIII (1980)

Preface		3
Experimentation in the Chicago Little Theatre: Cloyd Head's Grotesques	Marilyn Judith Atlas	7
Arthur Davison Ficke's "Ten Grotesques"	Kay Kinsella Rout	20
The Little Review and Sherwood Anderson	David D. Anderson	28
Masters's "Griffy the Cooper," Two Versions	Robert Narveson	39
Literature from the Crucible of Experience: Jack Conroy in Ohio, 1927-30	Douglas Wixson	44
From Your Place and Beyond	Sylvia Wheeler	61
Ordinary People: Extraordinary Novel	John Stark	71
Edna Ferber and the "Theatricalization" of American Mythology	Ellen Serlen Uffen	82
The Fiction of Ray Bradbury: Universal Themes in Midwestern Settings	Thomas P. Linkfield	94
The Old Northwest and Gilded Age Politics: An Analysis	Lawrence Ziewacz	102

IX (1981)

Preface		4
Three Generations of Missouri Fiction	David D. Anderson	7
Midwestern Civilization and Its Discontents: Lewis's Carol Kennicott and Roth's Lucy Nelson	James B. Carothers	21
"A Word for What Was Eaten:" An Introduction to Della T. Lutes and Her Fiction	Lawrence R. Dawson	31
Harriet Monroe, Margaret Anderson, and the Spirit of the Chicago Renaissance	Marilyn J. Atlas	43
"Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past:" The Autobiographical Fiction of Sherwood Anderson	Roger J. Bresnahan	54
The Natural and the Shooting of Eddie Waitkus	James Barbour and Robert Sattelmyer	61

X (1982)

Preface		4
"'We Was Girls Together'": A Study of Toni Morrison's Sula	Anna Shannon	9
The Terra Firma of Harriette Arnow's Fiction	Pauline Adams and Emma S. Thornton	23
Extending the Boundaries of the Ego: Eva in "Tell Me a Riddle"	Sara Culver	38
Surrogate Mothers: The Manipulation of Daughters in Works by Jessamyn West	Jane S. Bakerman	49
Innovation in Chicago: Alice Gerstenberg's Psychological Drama	Marilyn J. Atlas	59

XI (1983)

Preface		4
Morris Birkbeck's Notes on a Journey in America	John E. Hallwas	7
Paul Laurence Dunbar's Civil War Verse	Bernard F. Engel	15
The "Old Hands" of Winesburg	Roger J. Bresnahan	19
Fun in Winesburg	Thaddeus B. Hurd	28
The Evil in Michigan's Northern Forests	Thomas P. Linkfield	40
The Room, the City, and the War: Saul Bellow's Dangling Man	David D. Anderson	49

XII (1984)

Preface		5
"I Want to Know Why" as Biography and Fiction	Walter B. Rideout	7
Many Marriages as a Postmodern Novel	David Stouck	15
The Revisions in Windy McPherson's Son, Sherwood Anderson's First Novel	Ray Lewis White	23
Sherwood Anderson's Grotesques and Modern American Fiction	David D. Anderson	53

XIII (1985)

Preface		5
A Northern Monument to the Young Ernest Hemingway	T. Kilgore Splake	7
Eugene Thwing's Red-Keg: Taming the Competitive Spirit	Jean A. Laming	10
The "Chelsea Chapter" in an Edgar Lee Masters Biography	Evelyn Schroth	20
Frank Vlchek's Story of My Life: A Translation and an Edition	Robert D. Narveson	26
Remembering Floyd Dell	R. Craig Sautter	33
Chicago Cityscapes by Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Saul Bellow	David D. Anderson	43
Paul Osborn and His Gals in Kalamazoo	Christine Birdwell	50

XIV (1986)

Kenny J. Williams	7
Chicago as Setting and Force in William Riley Burnett's Little Caesar (1929)	Douglas A. Noverr	25
Mr. Dooley and Slats Grobnik: Chicago Commentators on the World Around Them	Roger J. Bresnahan	34
Working Worlds in David Mamet's Dramas	Dorothy H. Jacobs	47
"That Somber City" Since MidCentury	David D. Anderson	58

XV (1987)

Preface		5
The Greeley Phenomenon, or Some Parish! Some Priest!	David D. Anderson	7
The Sacramental Body: Andrew Greeley's Autobiography	Roger J. Bresnahan	11
Andrew M. Greeley: Ethnic Historian or Social Reformer	Patricia W. Julius	19
Renew Your People, Oh Lord: Andrew Greeley's Passover Trilogy	Kathleen Rout	25

XVI (1988)

Preface		5
The Diaries of an 1870s Michigan Schoolteacher: "To Rear the Tender Thought"	Marilyn Mayer Culpepper and Pauline Gordon Adams	7
The Great War, The Midwest, and Modernism: Cather, Dos Passos, and Hemingway	John Rohrkemper	19
Six Poems by Janet Lewis, from The Indians in the Woods	Kathleen Rout	30
John Brown (né Jake Braunowitz) of the Wasteland of Jo Sinclair (née Ruth Seid)	Ellen Serlen Uffen	41
Michigan Upper Peninsula Literary Traditions and the Poetry of T. Kilgore Splake	Thomas H. Smith	52
Saul Bellow and the Midwestern Tradition: Beginnings	David D. Anderson	59

XVII (1989)

Preface		5
The Decline of Higher Education in the Middle West	Paul W. Miller	7
Discontinuity and Unity of Place in the Writings of Rodney Nelson	Jill B. Gidmark	15
Playing Pedro and Other Diversions: Some Observations on Leisure Activities in the Midwest, 1870-1910	Pauline Gordon Adams, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper	22
Jack Conroy and Proletarian Fiction	David D. Anderson	33
The "Unclassed" Rebel Poet	Bernard F. Engel	45

XVIII (1990)

Preface		5
Maine's Gift to the Midwest: Elihu Washburne	Royce E. Flood	7
How It Played in Emporia: The World According to William Allen White	Roger J. Bresnahan	17
John Herrmann, Midwestern Modern: Part I	David D. Anderson	26
Threatening Places, Hiding Places: The Midwest in Selected Stories by Joyce Carol Oates	Margaret Rozga	34
Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Critics	Marilyn Judith Atlas	45

XIX (1991)

Preface		5
Vilhjalmur Stefansson: North Dakotan in the Arctic	Robert D. Narveson	9
Placelessness Against Place: Willa Cather's Nebraska Novels	William Barillas	20
New Lives, New Names: Dreiser's Carrie	G. T. Lenard	29
The Cosmopolitan Midwesterner	Janet Ruth Heller	37
John Herrmann, Midwestern Modern, Part II: The Alger Hiss Case and the Midwestern Literary Connection	David D. Anderson	42

XX (1992)

Preface		5
Kirkland's Myth of the American Eve: Re-visioning the Frontier Experience	Kelli A. Larson	9
Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want to Live There?	Sally E. Parry	15
Ray Bradbury's "The Kilimanjaro Device": The Need to Correct the Errors of Time	Loren Logsdon	28
A Raisin in the Sun: A Study in Afro-American Culture	Sandra Seaton	40
Don Robertson's Cleveland Trilogy	David D. Anderson	50

XXI (1993)

Preface		5
Provincialism and Cosmopolitanism: A Re-Assessment of Early Midwestern Realism	Ronald M. Grosh	9
The Violation of Hospitality and the Demoralization of the Frontier	David L. Newquist	19
A Historian's Fiction: Uses of Stereotype in Mari Sandoz's Son of the Gamblin' Man	Mary Jean DeMarr	29
"Starting Out in Chicago": Saul Bellow's Literary Apprenticeship	David D. Anderson	44
"Coming to Writing" Through the Impressionist Fiction of Tillie Olsen	Kathy Wolfe	57

XXII (1994)

Preface		5
Poems of Popular Common Grounds: Four Voices of the Midwest	James R. Saucerman	9
Sisters in a Quest - Sister Carrie and A Thousand Acres: the Search for Identity in Gendered Territory	Margaret Rozga	18
From Life to Art: The Short Fiction of Mari Sandoz	Kathy Wolfe Farnsley	30
Portrait of a Poet as a Young Man: Lucien Stryk	Susan Porterfield	36
Saul Bellow and the Midwestern Myth of the Search	David D. Anderson	46

XXIII (1995)

Preface		5
Sherwood Anderson's Oral Tradition	Philip Greasley	9
The Unrealized City in Sherwood Anderson's Windy McPherson's Son and Marching Men	Clarence B. Lindsay	17
Sherwood Anderson and Midwestern Literary Radicalism in the 1930s	Douglas Wixson	28
Sherwood Anderson's Creative Distortion of his Sister Stella's Character in The Memoirs	Paul W. Miller	40
The Durability of Winesburg, Ohio	David D. Anderson	51

XXIV (1996)

Preface		5
Beauty, Virtue and Disciplinary Power: A Foucauldian Reading of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye	Lynn Scott	9
Affirming Characters, Communities, and Change: Dialogism in Toni Morrison's Sula	Michael Wilson	24
On a Jet Plane: Jadine's Search for Identity through Place in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby	Mary Beth Pringle	37
"The Site of Memory": Narrative and Meaning in toni Morrison's Beloved	John Rohrkemper	51
Cracked Psyches and Verbal Putty: Geography and Integrity in Toni Morrison's Jazz	Marilyn J. Atlas	63

XXV (1997)

Preface		5
The Literary Landscape of Minnesota Small Towns; Gopher Prairie, Staggerford, and Lake Wobegon	Elmer Suderman	9
We Turned Hobo: A Depression Tale Recovered	James M. Boehnlein	19
Grace Stone Coates: A Lyric Girlhood	Melody M. Zajdel	28
James Thurber, Midwestern "Innocent Abroad"	Russ Bodi	38
Louis Bromfield and Ecology in Fiction: A Re-Assessment	David D. Anderson	48

XXVI (1998)

Preface		5
Why "It's Crazy to stay Chinese in Minnesota": A Meditation on Double-Consciousness	Roger Jiang Bresnahan	9
Eliza Farnham and the Prairie	Nancy McKinney	18
A Name on the Land	David D. Anderson	27
Families	William B. Thomas	34
My Home Town: The Empty Places We Lived in the Middle of	Elmer Suderman	41
Jon Hassler: 1997 Mark Twain Award	Jill Gidmark	62

XXVII (Spring 1999)

Preface		5
Ambrose Bierce's "Chickamauga": A Lesson in History	Kelli A. Larson	9
Playing "with the faith of fifty million people"?: The Response of the Print Media to the Black Sox Scandal and its Revelations about Gambling	Douglas A. Noverr	23
Priestly Sleuths: Mystery in Midwestern Urban Settings	Russ Bodi	23
Louis Bromfield's "Cubic Foot of Soil"	David D. Anderson	41
A Chapter of Autobiography, Part One	William Thomas	48
A Major Midwestern Bibliography: a review essay	David D. Anderson	56

XXVII (Fall 1999)

Preface		5
The Chicago Renaissance in Fiction	David D. Anderson	7
Between the Mission and the Factory: Eunice Tietjens's Profiles From China	Marilyn J. Atlas	17
James Purdy's Gertrude (1997): A Visit to Chicago Painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) in Hades	Paul W. Miller	26
The Cultural Predicament of Ethnic Writers: Three Chicago Poets	Roger J. Jiang Bresnahan	36
Saul Bellow and The Nobel Savage: An Anticipatory Review	David D. Anderson	47
A Chapter of Autobiography: Part Two	William Thomas	54

XXVIII (Spring 2000)

Preface		5
There's No Place Like Home: The Midwest in American Film Musicals	Edward Recchia	9
Blood - And a Name - On the Land	David D. Anderson	19
How I "Earned my Oars," Or Nautical Passage at Fifty for Mary Ellen Caldwell	Jill B. Gidmark	25
Some Comments on William Thomas's "The Farm, 1912-1940"	Theodore R. Kennedy	29
A Chapter of Autobiography: Conclusion	William Thomas	33

XXVIII (Fall 2000)

Preface		3
"Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal,"	Robert L. McLaughlin	7
"Constructing MASCULINITY IN Hike and the Aeroplane,"	Sally E. Parry	32
"'war is a horrible thing': Looking at Lewis's Political Philosophy through Hike and the Aeroplane,"
"'Snoway talkcher father': Nativism and the Modern Family in Babbitt,"	Ellen Dupree	41
"Babbitt: The Literary Dimension,"	Martin Bucco	50

XXIX (Spring 2001)

Preface		3
"Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal,"	Robert L. McLaughlin	7
"Constructing MASCULINITY IN Hike and the Aeroplane,"	Sally E. Parry	32
"'war is a horrible thing': Looking at Lewis's Political Philosophy through Hike and the Aeroplane,"
"'Snoway talkcher father': Nativism and the Modern Family in Babbitt,"	Ellen Dupree	41
"Babbitt: The Literary Dimension,"	Martin Bucco	50

XXIX (Fall 2001)

Preface		3
"The Idea of Europe in Sinclair Lewis's Novels"	Robert E. Fleming	7
"Walden Pond and Tin Lizzie: Sinclair Lewis Records the Great Plans"	Roger Forseth	20
"Here is the story THE MOVIES DARED NOT MAKE': The Contemporary Context and Reception Strategies of the New York Post's Serialization (1936) of It Can't Happen Here"	Frederick Betz	29
"The Language of Unrest: It Can't Happen Here and Native Son"	Rebecca Cooper	44
"Mrs Babbitt and Mrs Rabbit"	Brenda Gabioud Brown	55

XXX (Spring 2002)

Preface		3
Center Stage: Midwestern Plays and Playwrights	David Radavich	7
Alice Gerstenberg and the Experimental Trap	Dorothy Chansky	21
From Novel to Plays: Zona Gale and the Marriage Plot in Three Versions of Miss Lulu Bett	Marilyn Judith Atlas	35
Reconstructing the Image of the Farm Woman: Scenes from Rural Life, 191-1929	Anne Beck	45
At Home in the '50s: Cultural Nostalgia and William Inge's Picnic	Michael Wentworth	56
Rocket Man Takes Off: Stephen Dietz's Minneapolis Launching	Jill Barnum Gidmark	72

XXX (Fall 2002)

Preface		3
Compass Rose	Rane Arroyo	7
The Already Browned Skin of "American" Modernism: Rane Arroyo's Pale Ramón	Maria DeGuzmán	15
Exiles, Migrants, Settlers, and Natives: Literary Representations of Chicano/as and Mexicans in the Midwest	Theresa Delgadillo	27
Alternative Cartographies: The Impact of Third Woman on Chicana Feminist Literature, 1981-1986	Catherine Ramírez	47

XXXI (Spring 2003)

Preface		5
Reading Miss Lulu Bett: The Reception History of a Midwestern Classic	Marcia Noe and Nancy Neff	9
Male Fraud: Zona Gale Travesties Patriarchy in Miss Lulu Bett	Riann Bilderback	17
Nobody Sick, Nobody Poor: Zona Gale's Construction of a Feminist Utopia	Catherine Kalish	25
Romance and Revenge: Zona Gale and Margery Latimer's Conflicts over Love	Kenneth B. Grant	35
A Feminist Influence: Zona Gale and William Maxwell	Barbara Burkhardt	42

XXXI (Fall 2003)

Preface		4
What Is Midwestern Modernism?	Sara Kosiba	6
Hemingway's Midwest: The Interior Landscape	James Seaton	14
Becoming White: Race and Ethnicity in The Great Gatsby	John Rohrkemper	22
Merging the Novel and the Epic: Understanding Morality in Dreiser's Sister Carrie	Catherine Kalish	32
Winesburg, Ohio: Beyond the Revolt from the Village	Abigail Tilley	44
Narrative Art and Modernist Sensibility in the Civil War Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald	Marcia Noe and Fendall Fulton	53

XXXII (Spring/Fall 2004)

Preface		4
Seasonal Reverberations: Kimberly Blaeser's Poetry of Place	Molly McGlennen	7
Poems for the Turn of the Century: Judith Minty's Walking with The Bear	Janet Ruth Heller	21
Fighting the Darkness: The Poetry of Nancy Genevieve	Loren Logsdon	31
Diane Wakoski's Michigan	Nancy Bunge	47
Land and Spirit: The Prose and Poetry of Linda Hasselstrom	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	55
Boundlessness Limited by Skin: Americana and Artifice in Alice Fulton's "Unwanting"	Daniel Nester	63
The Ecologies of Place in the Poetry of Kathleene West	Mary K. Stillwell	79

XXXIII (Spring 2005)

Preface		4
The Art of Alchemy: Transformation in the Poetry of Hilda Raz	Mary K. Stillwell	7
Friendship, Finance, and Art: Charles Scribner's Sons' Relationship with Ernest Hemingway and August Derleth	Kenneth B. Grant	29
The Theme of Isolation in Recent Poems by Lisel Mueller	Janet Ruth Heller	43
An Empty Vision: The American Dream on Main Street	David McGuire	55
"Murdered Banquos of the Forest": Caroline Kirkland's Environmentalism	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	73

XXXIII (Fall 2005)

Preface		4
You Can Go Home Again: Tennessee Williams's A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur	David Radavich	7
"A Profession Other than Writing": Echoes of Huckleberry Finn in Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America	Christian Knoeller	22
An Illusion of Understanding: Listeners and Tellers in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Michael Merva	36
Influencing Each Other Through the Mail: William Stafford's and Marvin Bell's Segues and Jim Harrison's and Ted Kooser's Braided Creek	Nancy Bunge	48

XXXIV (Spring/Fall 2006)

Preface		4
The Controversial, Subversive "Broken Tongue" of Paul Laurence Dunbar	Pam Bottoms	6
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Robert Burns: Vernacular Gateways	Christopher Jones	27
The Legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Dialect and Racial Configuration in the Works of Silas X. Floyd and Christina Moody	Katherine Capshaw Smith	36
"The Province of the Poet": Biographical Themes in Paul Laurence Dunbar's Herrick	Sheena Denney	53
A Man of His Times: The Fiction of Paul Laurence Dunbar	Stephen C. Holder	61
Dunbar's Fiction: Transgressing the Limits of Realism to Breach the Horizons of Modernism	Linda Bearss	69
Besides Nursery Rhymes, I Learned Paul	Nancy D. Tolson	78
"The Great Big Pahty": My Grandmother and Paul Laurence Dunbar	Sandra Seaton	85
An Unintended Journey	Herbert Woodward Martin	93

XXXV (Spring/Fall 2007)

Preface		3
Civil Defense	Amy Nolan	6
The Printer's Devil	David Diamond	15
My Mother's Farm	Shari Zeck	34
Fieldstones	Suzanne Kosanke	41
South Dakota Sanctuary	Martha Christensen Demerly	48
Returning to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	Janet Ruth Heller	55
Doling Park and the Terrain of Childhood	Stephen Michael Adams	60
Finding Buck Creek	Dedria H. Barker	71
Contributors		77

XXXVI (Spring/Fall 2008)

Preface		4
Welcome to the Theodore Roethke Home Museum and Carl Roethke Development Center	Annie Ransford	7
Manic Depression and Love: Theodore Roethke's Poetic Women	Diana Hoover	10
The Birth and Growth of Adam in Theodore Roethke's Greenhouse Poems	Norman Chaney	20
Theodore Roethke: Visions beyond the Greenhouse	Linda Bearss	32
A State of Partial Completeness: The Afterlife of Theodore Roethke	Mellissa J. Klamer	43
Blake and Roethke: Divine Simplicity	Clint Burhans	55
Biographical Perspectives: Hemingway and Roethke Danced "My Papa's Waltz"	Annie Ransford	65
"Sound and Silence": Theodore Roethke's North American Mysticism in "The Rose"	Matthew Falk	80
Composing Place: The Dynamic Function of Region in Literature	Kayleen Schumaker	85
"I'll Be an Indian": Rereading Roethke's "North American Sequence"	Christian Knoeller	103
"An Inner Weight of Woe": Echoes of Sorrow and the Act of Weeping in Theodore Roethke's Prayers and Elegies	Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw	119
Five Poems for Theodore Roethke	Rod Phillips	135
A Most Musical Poet: An Opera Composer Remembers Theodore Roethke's Class	William Bolcom	140
A Small Reflection, A Slight Observation	Herbert Woodward Martin	142
NPR's All Things Considered Looks at the Theodore Rothke Centennial	Megan Cottrell	144

XXXVII (Spring 2009)

Preface		4
Imagining a New West, a Midwest, in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow?	Jeffrey Hotz	8
One Bostonian's Romantic, Realistic, and Modern View of the Midwest: Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, in 1843	Marilyn Judith Atlas	24
Writing in History's Wake: Audubon's Portrayal of the Midwest in his Missouri River Journals	Christian Knoeller	37
East Meets (Mid)West: Repressed Violence and Violent Repression in Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel"	Anita Helmbold	54
The Midwest, the Artist, and the Critics: Edith Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive	Jayne E. Waterman	69
Depictions of the Midwest by Drude Krog Janson and Olë Rølvaag	Rosalie Murphy Baum	85
"Flyover Country": Neil Gaiman's Extraordinary Perceptions of the Midwest	Sara Kosiba	106

XXXVIII (Spring/Fall 2010)

Preface		4
A Pilgrim's Progress: Mary Swander's New Mexico	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	7
Africa and Gwendolyn Brooks's America	Philip Greasley	17
"Thinking Small": Sherwood Anderson's South and Modern America	Robert Dunne	33
Exploring Borderlands: The "Strange Geography" of Susan Glaspell's Provincetown	Marcia Noe and Belinda Slocum	45
Long Ago and Far Away: Mark Twain's England	John Rohrkemper	60

XXXIX (Spring 2011)

Preface		4
Nature Remains: Scott Russell Sanders's A Conservationist Manifesto	Christian Knoeller	8
The CD and the Wilderness: Scott Russell Sanders's Wilderness Plots	Elizabeth Dodd	22
Places the Push and Pull: Scott Russell Sanders in the Midwestern Educational Landscape	Elizabeth C. Homan	34
Daughters	Scott Russell Sanders	42
Books by Scott Russell Sanders		59

XL (Spring 2012)

Preface		4
Gene Stratton-Porter: Scholar of the Natural World in A Girl of the Limberlost	Cheryl Birkelo	7
The "Talking Trees" of the Limberlost: Negotiating a Class-informed Ecofeminism	Robert Mellin	30
"A Story of American Grit": A Daughter of the Land as Realist Manifesto	Mary R. Ryder	37
Nature Writing and Popular Culture in Gene Stratton-Porter's The Keeper of the Bees	Susan A. Schiller	45
Gene Stratton-Porter's Music of the Wild: Nature, Belief and Activism	Mary DeJong Obuchowski	57
Gene Stratton-Porter: A Selected Primary Source Bibliography		64
Recent Midwestern Fiction and Memoirs		66

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