The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland

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The Midwestern Pastoral You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. THE MIDWESTERN PASTORAL Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland WILLIAM BARILLAS Ohio University Press Athens You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Ohio University Press,Athens, Ohio  www.ohio.edu/oupress©  by Ohio University Press Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™               Dust jacket/frontispiece art: Madison Oaks, drawing by Dan Beresford Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barillas,William David. The midwestern pastoral : place and landscape in literature of the American heartland / William Barillas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ---X (acid-free paper) . American literature—Middle West—History and criticism. . Pastoral literature, American—History and criticism. . Authors,American—Homes and haunts— Middle West. . Place (Philosophy) in literature. . Middle West—Intellectual life. . Middle West—In literature. . Landscape in literature. I.Title. PS.B  .'—dc  You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Para María, el amor de mi vida You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...