Sinclair Lewis
Subtitle: new essays in criticism
By: edited by James M. Hutchisson.
Contributors: Hutchisson, James M.
Publisher: Whitston Pub. Co.; Whitston Publishing Company
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Troy, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Satire, American -- History and criticism.; Middle West -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: Return to Main street : Sinclair Lewis and the politics of literary reputation -- Paula Marantz Cohen; title: Mark Schorer, dialogic discourse, and It can't happen here -- Robert L. McLaughlin; title: "Extremely married" : marriage as exprience and institution in the Job, Main Street, and Babbitt -- Clare Virginia Eby; title: Lewis's two "feminist novels" : the Job and Ann Vickers -- Robert E. Fleming; title: Boundary ambiguity and the politics of abortion : women's choices in Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal -- Sally E. Parry; title: "Scarlet tanager on an ice-floe" : women, men, and history on Main Street -- Caren J. Town; title: Kingsblood Royal, the God-Seeker, and the racial history of the Midwest -- Edward Watts; title: Arrowsmith and the political economy of medicine -- James M. Hutchisson; title: Gopher prairie of prairie style? Wright and Wharton help Dodsworth find his way home -- James Williams; title: Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather : the intersection of Main Street and One of ours -- Mary R. Ryder; title: Elmer Gantry, Chaucer's Pardoner, and the limits of serious words -- George Killough; title: Sinclair Lewis on authorship -- Martin Bucco; title: Can you go home again? Sinclair Lewis : Main Street and Paris -- Roger Foresth; title: Sinclair Lewis studies, 1977-1996 : an annontated bibliography -- Sally E. Parry and Robert L. McLaughlin.