BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REGIONALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE & ART


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Midwestern Regionalism in History and Literature

Atherton, Lewis.  Main Street on the Middle Border  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).

Barillas William.  The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). 

Booth, Nathaneal T.  American Small Town Fiction, 1940-1960: A Critical Study.  (McFarland, 2019).

Bray, Robert C.  Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois  (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982). 

Bray, Robert C. "The Regionalist Tradition in Midwestern Poetry: Minor Leagues or Minor Key?" in John Hallwas (ed), Studies in Illinois Poetry  (Urbana: Stormline Press, Inc., 1989). 


Burns, E. Bradford.  Kinship with the Land: Regionalist Thought in Iowa, 1894-1942  (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996). 


Cayton, Andrew R.L. and Susan E. Gray.  The Identity of the American Midwest: Essays on Regional History.  
(Indiana University Press, 2007).


Cayton, Andrew R.L., Richard Sisson and Chris Zacher (eds).  The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia.  (Indiana University Press, 2006).

Cook, David M. & Craig G. Swauger.  The Small Town in American Literature: A Casebook Anthology.  (NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973).

Hallwas, John E.  Introduction and annotations to Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology, An Annotated Edition.  (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993).  

Hallwas, John E. "Black Hawk: A Reassessment."  The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 45, No. 8, Spring 1981, pp. 599-619.  (State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs). 

Hallwas, John E. & Dennis J. Reader.  The Vision of this Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg  (Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1976). 

Holman, David Marion. A Certain Slant of Light: Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995).

Knott, John.  Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest.  (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012).

Lauck, Jon K., Gleaves Whitney and Joseph Hogan.  Finding a New Midwestern History (University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

Lauck, Jon K.  From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017).

Lauck, Jon K. The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013).

(Lauck) Winslow, Brady G. "Jon K. Lauck and the Revival of Midwestern History."  Middle West Review. University of Nebraska Press. Vol 4, No 2, Spring 2018.

Madison, James H. (ed).  Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).

Meyer, Roy W. The Middle Western Farm Novel in the Twentieth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965), pp. 183-88.

Olson, Steven.  The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994). 

Omanson, BJ.  "The Persistence of Regionalism."  Introduction to Jared Carter's The Land Itself. (Morgantown: Monongahela Books, 2019).

Pichaske, David R.  Late Harvest: Rural American Writing.  (Paragon House: 1991).

Pichaske, David R.  Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place.  (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press: 2006).

Reigelman, Milton. The Midland: A Venture in Literary Regionalism. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press: 1975).

Rusk, R. L., The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier. (NY: Columbia University Press, 1925).

Weber, Ronald.  Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing.  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).




General Studies of American Regionalism 

Baker, Joseph E. "Four Arguments for Regionalism," Saturday Review of Literature 15 (28 November 1936).

Berry, Wendell.  Imagination in Place.  (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010).

Berry, Wendell. "The Regional Motive." Southern Review. (1970).


Beath, Paul Robert. "The Fallacies of Regionalism," Saturday Review of Literature 15 (28 November 1936).

Boardman, Kathleen A. "Lowry Charles Wimberly and the Retreat of Regionalism," Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 1991: 143-56.

Botkin, B.A. "We Talk About Regionalism: North, East, South, West," The Frontier 13 (1933): 286-96.

Brown, Richard Maxwell. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1983).

Campbell, Donna. Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997).


Dainotto, Roberto M. Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Jensen, Merrill.  Regionalism in America  (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965).

Jordan, David, (ed.). Regionalism Reconsidered: New Approaches to the Field. (NY: Garland, 1994).

Joseph, Philip,  American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age. (LSU Press, 2007).    

Lutz, Tom. Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004).

Mangione, Jerre. The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1972).

McWilliams, Carey. The New Regionalism in American Literature. (Seattle: University of Washington, 1930).

Miller, Jim Wayne. “Anytime the Ground is Uneven: The Outlook for Regional Studies and What to Look Out For.” Geography and Literature: A Meeting of the Disciplines. Eds. William E. Mallory and Paul Simpson Housley. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987).

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. "Regional Literature in the South," College English I (1940): 381-89.

"Regionalism: A Symposium," Sewanee Review 39 (1931): 456-83.


Steiner, Michael C.  Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American Left.  (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015).

"The Boom in Regionalism," Saturday Review of Literature 10 (April 1934).

Turner, Frederick. Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape. (San Fransisco: Sierra Club Books, 1989).

Tate, Allen. "Regionalism and Sectionalism," New Republic, 23 December 1931, pp. 158-59.

Twelve Southerners (John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson et al). I'll Take My Stand. (NY: Harper, 1930).

Weaks-Baxter, Mary.  Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing  (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006). 

Weatherby, H.L. and George Core (eds). Place in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations (University of Missouri Press, 2004).

Wimberly, Lowry Charles. "The New Regionalism," Prairie Schooner 6, (1932): 214-21.







Regionalism in Art

Berardi, Marrianne.  Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton. (St Joseph, MI: The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 1993).




Corn, Wanda M. Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).

Czestochowski, Joseph S. John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981).

Dennis, James M. Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).

Doss, Erika. Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism. (Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1991).

Junker, Patricia (ed). John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. (NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1998).

Kendall, M. Sue. A Guide to the Collection of Regionalist Art at the Davenport Museum of Art. (Davenport: Davenport Museum of Art, 1993).

Kendall, M. Sue. Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry and the Kansas Mural Controversy.  (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986).

Kennedy, Roger G. and David Larkin. When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy. (NY: Rizzoli, 2009).


Kroiz, Lauren.  Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era (University of California Press, 2018).

Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982).

Park, Marlene and Gerald Martkowitz.. Democratic Vistas: Post Office Art in the New Deal. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984).

Zug, John (ed). This Is Grant Wood Country. (Davenport: Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, 1977).



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