Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical: Writings from the 1890s - Hardcover

Garland, Hamlin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252035097 ISBN 13: 9780252035098

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2010

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"I am a reformer--a radical--a promoter of Democracy. . . .&;--Hamlin Garland to Horace Traubel, 13 January 1892

As a self-proclaimed native "son of the middle border" states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, Hamlin Garland wrote short stories, novels, and essays about the harsh realities of farm life. At a time when rural romanticism was in literary vogue, he described conditions for midwestern farmers as they really were and promoted a wide variety of reforms to improve their lives, including women's rights legislation and single-tax reform.

The volume reprints much of Garland's radical fiction and nonfiction from between 1887 and 1894, almost all previously uncollected, including four of his most outspoken stories depicting farm conditions of the time. Fueled by moral outrage and a cry for justice shaped by his own family's hardships in Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota, the radical writing of his early career is filled with compassion and fury.

Seeking to reinvigorate an appreciation and understanding of Garland's centrality in the rise of a post&;Civil War radical spirit in American expression, this collection assembles the most vibrant and representative examples of his radical 1890s writings.

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Donald Pizer is Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. His works include American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather; The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism; and Theodore Dreiser: Interviews.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252035097
• ISBN 13: 9780252035098
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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