The American Novel New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio

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 - sixty years after its original publication. 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.