Sherwood Anderson : A Biographical and Critical Study (Routledge Revivals)

Howe, Irving

Routledge（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 286 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041327639

Full Description

Originally published in 1951 and reissued in 1966 this book combines stimulating biography with sound literary criticism in its account of a writer who observed America's great nineteenth century change from an agrarian to an industrial society. Irving Howe places Anderson in the cultural context of his times and gives a fresh and balanced judgment both of his virtues and limitations. As an artist, the author of Winesburg, Ohio and Dark Laughter was over-valued and then ignored; Howe concludes that the best of Anderson's work is a durable part of the American literary structure and an enrichment of the American imagination.

Contents

Author's Note 1966. Preface. 'A Fair and Sweet Town'. Success and Consequences. 'A Will to Splendour'. The Book of the Grotesque. Conditions of Fame. The Short Stories. In the Lawrencian Orbit. The Downward Curve. Final Wanderings. An American as Artist.