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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Was the American Revolution Really Revolutionary?

Disloyalty or Dissent: The Case of the Copperheads

The Children's Feature: A Guide to the Editors Perceptions of Adult Readers of Women s Magazines

The Austro-German Anschluss of 1938.

Suburban Molesters: Joyce Carol Oates Expensive People

Vehicular Religion and the Gasoline Service Station

POEMS

The Descent Into Heaven

The Rainmaker

Moving South, He Hears This Colloquy Inside Himself

Inventing Peter

Getting Out the Album

Wishes for Karen: View from Presque Isle at Sunset Point

How to Keep Warm

Mirage

Taking Down the Tree

Evening with Novelists at Crown Point Estates

Hogback

Carrying an Oar Inland

Abstract

in this issue . . .

ROBERT K. RATZLAFF, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Kansas State University and received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and is associate professor of history at Pittsburg State University. Most of his publications are in American history.

ROBERT J. CHAFFIN, who asks whether the American Revolution was really revolutionary, received his Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches history at The University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh. He has published numerous articles and is working on his second book.

ERIC J. CARDINAL, who investigates the case of the copperheads, received his Ph. D. from Kent State University.

MARGARET B. McDOWELL, who examines women's magazines, received her Ph. D. from The University of Iowa, where she is chairman of the Women's Studies Program. She has appeared in numerous journals, including MQ, and has published books on Edith Wharton and Carson McCullers.

MARK S. SIMPSON, who writes about the Austro-German Anschluss, is a graduate student in comparative literature at The University of California, Riverside.

SANFORD PINSKER, who analyzes Oates' Expensive People, received his Ph. D. from the University of Washington and teaches English at Franklin and Marshall. He has published a number of articles and books on modern literature, and his poems appear regularly in literary magazines.

JAMES B. SCHICK, who outlines the theology of automobile worship, received his Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches history at Pittsburg State University. He has published a number of articles on American history.

PETER COOLEY lives in New Orleans and teaches at Tulane. The University of Missouri Press has released an Ip-record of his reading from The Company of Strangers (U. of Missouri Press, Breakthrough Series, 1976).

ALBERT GOLDBARTH is in Austin, teaching at the University of Texas.

PHILIP LEGLER has new work in The Paris Review and The Third Coast, an anthology of contemporary Michigan poets (Wayne State University Press). He teaches at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.

BILL TREMBLAY teaches at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. The University of Massachusetts Press published his Crying in the Cheap Seats in 1971.

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