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Book SynopsisSherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, revisits a classic, twentieth-century American text. Scholars from around the world share their intrepretations and shed new light on Anderson’s contribution to Modernism and his legacy to later writers. They look closely at gender relations, masculinity, place, the nature of community, and the elusive American Dream.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Precious McKenzie Small Town to City and Back Again: The Re-figuring and Loss of the American Dream in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio Josephene Kealey Winesburg, Elsewhere: George Willard and the Literary Formalization of Obsession in Small-Town America and Abroad Daniel Davis Wood Failed Adventures and Imagined Communities in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio David T. Humphries Speaking of Manhood in Winesburg, Ohio William M. Etter Sherwood Anderson’s Legacy to Contemporary American Writing Rachel Luria Sherwood Anderson and the Contemporary Short-Story Cycle Jennifer J. Smith Publishing Sherwood Anderson’s “Group of Tales”: The Textual Presentations of the Winesburg Stories and the Modernist Legacy of Winesburg, Ohio Matthew James Vechinski “Crude and Broken Forms” in America: Avant-Garde and Modernist Affinities in Winesburg, Ohio Stamatina Dimakopoulou About the Authors Index
