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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sinclair Lewis"”.
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Idealism in the novels of Sinclair Lewis.
Throughout his literary career Sinclair Lewis displayed idealism in his novels, though, with the exception of Arrowsmith, he became more realistic as he grew older. To trace his idealism, one may divide his literary career into three periods suggested by Geoffrey Moore in his essay "Sinclair Lewis: …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… critically received; in 1930, Midwestern author Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This thesis considers this period to ask how popular Midwestern authors thought about and portrayed their region at a time when Midwestern writing was popular …
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Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An exercise in reading the interracial canon
Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An Exercise in Reading the Interracial Canon has two purposes. First, it offers detailed readings of three American novels: An Imperative Duty by William Dean Howells (1891), What Answer? by Anna Dickinson (1868), and Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (1947). These …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… critics Harold Stearns, H.L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis will be incorporated. Second, I will discuss the life experienced abroad by the Expatriates--the people (including writers from other countries) with whom they associated; the places they frequented (including cafes, literary salons, …
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Shooting a mule (and other stories)
… Pool, Isa Carrington Cabell, Booth Tarkington, Sinclair Lewis, Julian Street, and Jesse Beery, which help to place the fiction that follows in its historical context.
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"To go on Doing Babbitts": Recontextualizing Twilight Sleep as Lewisian Satire
… of Twilight Sleep in light of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel, Babbitt. Through an examination of the novels' respective forms of satire, I will demonstrate the authors' similar undertakings and the way in which Twilight Sleep departs from Wharton's previous novels. By reevaluating …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
<p>The essay analyzes Sinclair Lewis short fiction in If I Were Boss, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. The primary literature is juxtaposed with a study of visual texts and historic research with a …
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The novels of Ben Hecht.
… (1922), which has been compared to the works of Sinclair Lewis, and by Fantazius Mallare (1922), a Freudian note-book which had a sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (1924). He also wrote two detective stories, The Florentine Dagger (1923), and Count Bruga (1926), though the latter is actually a …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… Innocence, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White, and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. Characters in these novels are alienated from groups like family, church, class, and village. Such communities are considered intermediate associations because they intervene between individuals and government power. …
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Small-Town Mentality and Female Perspectives
At the end of the 19th and also at the beginning of the 20th century several social and cultural changes took place that shaped American society. One of the most significant of them was the appearance of big cities, which resulted in the duality and led to the born of a new way thinking. In the new …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… in Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis,” establishes the transformative potential that early users saw in the automobile. I argue that Wharton’s A Motor-Flight Through France (1908), for instance, offers the motorcar as a means of helping the leisure traveler develop a …