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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES 

H. G. Wells's Time Machine: In Search of Time Future - and Time Past 

Giving the Game Away: Thoreau's Intellectual Imperialism and the Marketing of Walden Pond 

Priestley's War: Social Change and the British Novel, 1939-1945 

Multiple Joyce Questions 

Smile When You Call My Pronunciation "Beastly," Stranger 

POEMS 

A Wisp of Green-Gray 

Memory 

Looking for a, Thinking of a 

The Apple of Shadows  

The Suburbs 

After the Wedding 

Visiting hours 

Black and White in Color 

As If a Window Opens 

North Fork 

Snow 

Etching 

No Mercy For Stone 

Alone 

A Dilatory Attachment 

REVIEW 

Christopher A. Hall and John Sanders; Does God Have a Future? A Debate on Divine Providence 

Abstract

PETER FIRCHOW views H. G. Wells's Time Machine not as a "facile work of scientific fantasy" but as a novel valuable for "its extraordinary innovativeness ... that is as literary as it is scientific." Among Wells's distinctions in this work is that he "is the first writer of Utopian fiction to argue that the achievement of Utopia will inevitably lead to stagnation and degeneration.,, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Firchow has also served as Visiting Professor at universities in Europe, Central America, and Asia, most recently at the University of Graz in Austria. The author of more than fifty scholarly articles, Firchow has published books on Aldous Huxley and W. H. Auden, among others.

IRA BROOKER suggests that the juxtaposition of Henry David Thoreau as the Apostle of Unspoiled Nature against the SUV crowd of marauders galumphing through forest, pond, and prairie in search of new pleasures may in fact not be warranted. Thoreau, Brooker proposes, bore an ample measure of blame for marketing the wilderness and so of its despoliation. (He was also an agent of destruction: the year before he took up residence at Walden Pond [1844] he and a friend accidentally started a fire in Walden Woods that charred more than 100 acres of bone-dry forest.) A graduate in English at the University of Minnesota, Brooker here publishes his first article. He is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program in fiction writing at Columbia College in Chicago.

TOM HENTHORNE notes that book publishing was alone free enough from government minders to offer dissent from the conventional view of British war aims. J. B. Priestley used his wartime novels to assert that "workers did not fight for love of country or to preserve the English way of life," but instead to "change the social order, to transform England into a socialist state." Henthorne teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at Pace University in New York City, and has published works on Joseph Conrad, Amos Tutuola, and Solomon Plaatje. His is currently working on a book-length study of Conrad's early work.

BARRY BALLARD's sonnets have most recently appeared in Smartish Pace, Rosebud, Hollins Critic, and National Forum. Recipient of the Explorations Award for Literature from the University of Alaska and the Boswell Poetry Prize from Texas Christian University, Ballard has also published four award-winning chapbook collections, the most recent of which are First Probe to Antarctica (Bright Hill Press, 2002) and Plowing To the End of the Road (Finishing Line Press, 2002). Ballard writes from Burleson, Texas. His work has appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

BALOIAN is an Armenian/American poet who lives in El Granada, California, near San Francisco. His poems have been published by Ship of Fools, Rain City Review, Carolina Quarterly, Antioch Review, Americas Review, Ararat Magazine, and many other journals over the past forty years. He also has poems in two recent anthologies, How Much Earth and Armenia Town. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

RAYMOND BARFIELD is a physician at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, where he divides his time between patient care and research on stem cell biology. His lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

THOMAS ROBERT BARNES, Tahoe Paradise, California, besides writing poetry, is a screenwriter, telemark skier, and flyfisher. His book, Fish Story (2003), is a collaboration with watercolorist, Penny Schrawder.

ALAN BRITT, Reistertown, Maryland, has published three books, Infinite Days (2002), Amnesia Tango (1998) and Bodies of Lightning (1995). His Poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Bitter Oleander, Chariton Review, New Letters, Flint Hills Review, and Fathers: A Collection of Poems (St. Martin’s, 1997) Britt is poet-in-residence for the Maryland State Arts Council. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

T. ALAN BROUGHTON has published six collections of poetry, most recently The Origin of Green (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001). He has also published four novels and a collection of short stories, and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and The Ploughshares Reader. He lives Burlington, Vermont.

JAIME CURL, Spokane, Washington, is managing editor of Willow Springs, Eastern Washington University’s literary journal. His poems have appeared in Portland Review, Redactions, and other journals.

CHRIS DOMBROWSKI has published in New Letters, Mid-American Review, Cutbank, and other journals. His numerous grants and awards include the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry. He works as a poet-in-the-schools and lives in Missoula, Montana.

GARY DUERR, Somerville, Massachusetts, has published two books of poems, Winter Light (Four Way Books, 1999) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrew College Press, 1999). His poems have appeared in American Literary Review, Cottonwood, Iowa Review, North American Review, and previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

TAYLOR GRAHAM has published poetry in Chattahoochee Review, Iowa Review, New York Quarterly, West Branch, and other journals. Her collection, An Hour in the Cougar's Grace (Pudding House, 2000), received a Pipistrelle Best of Small Press Award. She works as a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler and lives in Somerset, California.

ROBERT KING, Greeley, Colorado, has published poems recently in Poetry, Atlanta Review, and Missouri Review. His latest chapbook is Naming Names (Palanquin Press, 2001). His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

SHELLY KREHBIEL has published poetry in Sulphur River Literary Quarterly. She works in the travel/tourism industry and lives in Wichita, Kansas.

MATTHEW SCOTT LaPIERRE has published poetry in Café Review, Chiron Review, and many other publications. He lives in Portland, Maine.

DONNA J. GELAGOTIS LEE, Hillsborough, New Jersey, has published poems in Bitter Oleander; CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Feminist Studies; Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Magazine of Feminist Scholarship; Wind Magazine; Wisconsin Review, and her work has also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

G. C. WALDREP has published poems recently in Gettysburg Review, Ascent, and Many Mountains Moving. His poetry has also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly. Waldrep lives in Summerfield, North Carolina.

TIM CONLEY examines the argument that while "readers make authors," in the case of James Joyce, he "leaves himself always as a work in progress." Indeed, Conley finds that Joyce had an "effectively limited role in the creation of his works." An Adjunct Professor in the English Department of Queens Univerity in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at SONY-Albany, Conley has published articles about Joyce in other scholarly journals, is editor, with one other, of the Samuel Beckett website (Apmonia: www.themodemword.com/beckett), and his book, Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation (University of Toronto Press) has recently been published.

ADAM BROOKE DAVIS takes on the mavens of mispronunication, the self-appointed gurus of what to say and how to say it, arguing they feed upon our social fears of being hoist in our own petard of opening our mouths, upon the memories lurking in some dark recess of our brains of a school teacher wagging her finger at our contemptible linguistic comportment. Davis finds, however, that there's more to life and language than these language harpies will admit. A specialist in medieval and oral-traditional literature, Davis is Associate Professor of English at Truman State University. He has published scholarship, criticism, poetry, fiction, and translations in America and Europe, and has served as consultant and associate editor of the Chariton Review, the Missouri Review Online, and Oral Tradition.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY is Professor of Philosophy in the Social Sciences Department at Pittsburg State University. Author of several books and many articles on the philosophical understanding of God, Viney has also contributed essays for The Midwest Quarterly.

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