Contributors Tom Perrin -- Creating the Heartland: the Midwest Emerges in American Culture / Elizabeth Raymond -- People are getting tired of Broadway and Fifth Avenue: The Origins of the Society of Midland Authors / Robert Loerzel -- Midlander: Booth Tarkington's Defense of the Midwest / Jeremy Beer -- Let us write like inspired artists and sell like shrewd Yankees: Bess Streeter Aldrich's Early-Twentieth-Century Middle West / Harl A. Dalstrom -- The Realistic Regionalism of Iowa's Ruth Suckow / Cherie Dargan -- The Curious Case of Jay G. Sigmund: the Midwest's Most Rooted Regionalist? / Zachary Michael Jack -- A Symphonic Midwest: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Regionalist Identity, 1903-1922 / Michael J. Pfeifer -- The Homer of Middle-Western America: Walt Mason's Syndicated Midwestern Poetry / Paul Emory Putz -- Village Realism but No Revolt: Frazier Hunt's Sycamore Bend / John E. Hallwas -- South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn: Expressing Midwestern Regional Values and Identity on Canvas / John E. MIller -- The Most Talked-About Personality in the Middle West: Henry Field's Struggle to Maintain the Midwestern Ideal on Iowa Radio / Kimberly K. Porter -- Flee to the Fields: Midwestern Catholicism and the Last Agrarian Crusade, 1920-1941 / Allan C. Carlson -- The Midwestern Mind of Jane Addams: Cultural Pluralism and the Rural Roots of an Urban Idea / Michael C. Steiner -- The Rise of the Midwest, the Chicago Renaissance, and the Quest for National Recognition / Philip A. Greasley -- Typecast Rebels: The Strange Careers of Winesburg, Ohio and Main Street / Jon K. Lauck -- Edited for the Old Lady in Dubuque: The Middlebrow Literature of the Midwest / Tom Perrin -- Contributors
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