Marcia Noe is a professor of English and director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre, and over seventy other publications about Midwestern authors.

"A seminal and groundbreaking work of extensive research and meticulous scholarship." - Midwest Book Review

• Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Enduring Innocent Midwest 1 Agrarianism, Christianity, Education, and the Democratic Ideal Inform the Innocent Midwest 2 Starting Over in the Innocent MidwestThe New American Pastoral 3 Midwestern Innocence AbroadTwain, Howells, Tarkington, and Lewis and the International Experience 4 Good NeighborsThe Innocent Midwest in the Progressive Era5 Midwestern Innocence on the Prairie-and in the CityImmigrants and Migrants in the Midwest6 Midwestern Innocence LostThe Revolt from the Village ConclusionThe Innocent Midwest and the Nation EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Marcia Noe is a professor of English and director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre, and over seventy other publications about Midwestern authors.

"A seminal and groundbreaking work of extensive research and meticulous scholarship." - Midwest Book Review

• Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Enduring Innocent Midwest 1 Agrarianism, Christianity, Education, and the Democratic Ideal Inform the Innocent Midwest 2 Starting Over in the Innocent MidwestThe New American Pastoral 3 Midwestern Innocence AbroadTwain, Howells, Tarkington, and Lewis and the International Experience 4 Good NeighborsThe Innocent Midwest in the Progressive Era5 Midwestern Innocence on the Prairie-and in the CityImmigrants and Migrants in the Midwest6 Midwestern Innocence LostThe Revolt from the Village ConclusionThe Innocent Midwest and the Nation EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Marcia Noe is a professor of English and director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre, and over seventy other publications about Midwestern authors.

"A seminal and groundbreaking work of extensive research and meticulous scholarship." - Midwest Book Review

• Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Enduring Innocent Midwest 1 Agrarianism, Christianity, Education, and the Democratic Ideal Inform the Innocent Midwest 2 Starting Over in the Innocent MidwestThe New American Pastoral 3 Midwestern Innocence AbroadTwain, Howells, Tarkington, and Lewis and the International Experience 4 Good NeighborsThe Innocent Midwest in the Progressive Era5 Midwestern Innocence on the Prairie-and in the CityImmigrants and Migrants in the Midwest6 Midwestern Innocence LostThe Revolt from the Village ConclusionThe Innocent Midwest and the Nation EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex