Sacred Land : Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern, Modernisms, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An American Venus and Virgin: The Sacramental Dynamic of the Middle West -- 2 Protestantism, Literalism, and the Sacramental Body of the Midwest -- 3 Winesburg Under the Sway of "New Englanders' Gods": Puritanism, Industrialism, Materialism, and the Midwestern Fall -- 4 "The fields fell into the forms of women": Sexual and Gendered Associations of the Land in Horses and Men -- 5 Laughing at "Fake Talk": The Guttural Silence of the Midwestern Land in Dark Laughter -- 6 "Fleshly but beyond just flesh": The Salvific Sacramental Meaning of the Land in Poor White and Beyond Desire -- 7 "I'm a good Catholic, but I could get along with caring for trees": Nature and Sacramental Community in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Ántonia -- 8 "A Story of the West, After All": The Sacramental and Midwestern Pastoral Subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -- 9 The Return to "Hard, Natural Things": From Pastoral Delusion to Rock-Bottom Reality in Ruth Suckow's The Folks -- 10 Sacramentalism in a Postmodern Farm Novel: Ginny Smith's Spiritual Journey in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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