This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism. Also discussed are the reasons why literary critics of the following decades dismissed these writings as bizarre and improbable and questioned how the writers could have so badly miscalculated the future.
This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a ref...
Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work includes the modern classic Winesburg, Ohio. In the first volume of this monumental two-volume work, Walter Rideout chronicles the life of Anderson from his birth and his early business career through his beginnings as a writer and finally to his move in the mid-1920s to Ripshin, his house near Marion, Virginia. The second volume will cover Anderson s return to business pursuits, his extensive travels in the South touring factories, which...
Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work inc...
Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Winesburg, Ohio. His realistic and nonformulaic writing style would influence the next generation of authors, most notably Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Walter Rideout s Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is a seminal work that reintroduces us to this important, yet recently neglected, American writer, giving him long overdue attention. This second volume of the monumental two-volume work covers Anderson s life after his...
Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Wines...
