San Antonio College Library

A critical introduction to Anderson's work considers selected stories to illuminate the approach and techniques on one of the first writers to dramaize the sense of alienation marking twentieth-century life.

Anderson (1876-1941) collected most of his writing into four volumes of short fiction: Winesburg, Ohio, The Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, and Death in the Woods. This volume covers the bulk of Anderson's important stories and is divided into foursections devoted to each volume of short fiction. Each chapter treats one story and covers the circumstances surrounding the composition, sources and influences that may have contributed to the story,...

A critical analysis of Anderson's writings in the context of his times.

Includes critical views on six of Sherwood Anderson's short stories: Winesburg, Ohio; Godliness; Death in the woods; The man who became a woman; I want to know why; and, The egg.

"Sherwood Anderson: An American Career is the first critical introduction to this important Midwestern and American writer in over a quarter century. While re-evaluating the accomplishments in Winesburg, Ohio and Anderson's other novels and short stories, it pays more attention to his non-fictional, autobiographical, and journalistic writing than do previous studies. It draws on unpublished manuscripts in the Newberry Library Anderson papers that...