New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio (The American Novel)

Book Overview

Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a classic of modernist American fiction. In original new essays by David H. Stouck, Marcia Jacobson, Clare E. Colquitt, and Thomas Yingling, Winesburg is reconsidered in the contexts of the expressionist movement, the American boy-book tradition, the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, and the rise of industrial capitalism. An introduction by John W. Crowley reviews the career of Sherwood Anderson and his assimilation into the literary canon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052138723X
• ISBN13: 9780521387231
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A good resource!

While in college, I read this book several times! I used it as a resource for my book New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio. Anyone who wants to write a paper on Sherwood Anderson or teach Sherwood Anderson needs to read this book! It provides a variety of perspectives and shows how Winesburg, Ohio invites many different readings.

Refreshing Essays on Winesburg, Ohio

New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio is a refreshing collection of critiques that are essential for both gaining a critical understanding of the text. All essays are comprehensive in style but do not lack in content. Whether you want to gain new insight on the psychological troubles of Wing Biddlebaum, or the quasi-hero of the Modern Era -- George Willard, or develop your own new angles on the representative town of the old norms, New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio is essential.