19th century America
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agrarian to industrial transition
American Dream
American literary criticism
Author_Irving Howe
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cultural history analysis
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literary reputation reassessment
mid-West
modernism in literature
Poor White
short story scholarship
twentieth-century authors
Product details
- ISBN 9781041327639
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
