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(0)Keith Newlin
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"In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. Keith Newlin traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a half-formed ambition to write who then skyrocketed into international prominence before he was forty." "The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have...
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This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on this major American novel. Newlin's introduction compares the responses of the novel's early reviewers with those of actual Dust Bowl migrants, and, writing on behalf of The Paris Review, National Book Award winner Ha Jin celebrates Steinbeck's remarkable artistry. For readers studying The Grapes of Wrath for the first time, a quartet of new essays offer a comprehensive...
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The essays in this volume bring together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary criticism on Hemingway's masterpiece. Essay topics include an exploration of the novel's cultural context with a discussion of Hemingway's involvement in the Parisian expatriate community, the portrayal of masculinity and femininity within the novel against the cultural changes brought on by war, and perspectives on the kind of morality the novel offers and what qualities...
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In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation's press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural Midwest in 1881 at age twenty-one. When his stories combining the radical economic theories of Henry George with realistic depictions of farm life appeared...