New Essays on Winesburg Ohio

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.