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For a century, Theodore Dreiser has represented for many readers a rebellious modernism whose novels both critiqued the American dream and embodied a bleakly deterministic perception of life.
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For readers studying The Grapes of Wrath for the first time, a quartet of new essays offer a comprehensive introduction to the novel’s key themes, social context, and critical history.
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The American Dream’ is a phrase that has become an essential component of the American experience, a phrase that, once entered into the national lexicon, has come to define our…
These six plays present varying accounts of the battle of the sexes in the early years of the 20th century. The subjects include the double standard, the advent of the…
In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. This title traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a…
Though Hemingway went on to write five more novels and dozens of short stories before winning the Nobel Prize in 1953, The Sun Also Rises, his second novel, endures as…
The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with…
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism offers twenty-eight original essays about an important genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces. Drawing upon…
Hamlin Garland
Best known for his collection of short stories Main-Travelled Roads, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was also an accomplished writer of tales of American Indians struggling to adapt to reservation life during…
A crafted defense of the New Woman, the first generation of women to achieve economic and social independence, this book deals with issues that are still with us - the…
Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of more than forty books, was a central figure in American literary life. This volume brings together a sample of Garland’s letters…
Isabel Garland Lord
Isabel Garland Lord offers an honest and revealing memoir of growing up in the shadow of her famous father, the pioneering realist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hamlin Garland. Written in…
