The Significant Hamlin Garland

A Collection of Essays

By (author) Donald Pizer

Publication date:

15 October 2014

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783083053

‘The Significant Hamlin Garland’ collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Garland’s early work and activities in an effort to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career. The essays in the first part of the book are devoted to Garland’s radical economic and artistic beliefs and activities, while those in the second half concentrate on his most permanent work of the period: ‘Main-Travelled Roads’, his novel ‘Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly’, and his autobiography ‘A Son of the Middle Border’.

Preface; A Selected Secondary Bibliography; Editorial Note and Acknowledgments; 1. Hamlin Garland in the ‘Standard’; 2. Hamlin Garland and the Prairie West; 3. Hamlin Garland and the Radical Drama in Boston, 1889–91; 4. A Summer Campaign in Chicago: Hamlin Garland Defends a Native Art; 5. ‘Main-Travelled Roads’; 6. ‘Main-Travelled Roads’ Revisited; 7. ‘Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly’; 8. Sexuality in ‘Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly’; 9. ‘A Son of the Middle Border’; Notes; Index

‘Donald Pizer has long been regarded as the leading scholar on Hamlin Garland. The articles collected in this volume trace Pizer’s engagement with the subject and reflect a scholar’s comprehensive grasp of the literary currents of the age. An essential book for the study of American fiction.’ —James Nagel, University of Georgia