Babbitt: An American Life (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Love, Glen A.

Biographies & Memoirs

Twayne Pub

Babbitt, the tragicomic novel of revolt against smug, middle-class materialism, which earned Sinclair Lewis the 1930 Nobel Prize for literature, is a unique increment in the elevation of American literature to world status. Glen A. Love's unified, in-depth study of Babbitt sets American literary realism in the historical and cultural context of the 1920s - post-World War I liberalism, the Jazz Age, speakeasies, Red scares, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the collapse of Puritanism - and carries its relevance to the present. A clear, readable discussion of satire, romance, and cultural symbolism, the book moves in concentric circles from the work to its critical reception and outward to its significance as a mocking, yet heroic authentication of Lewis's fanatic American-ness, which is connected to pioneer and frontier mores. More thorough and wide-ranging than former studies of the novel, Love's interpretation treats Babbitt as a work of realism and satire disguising an urgent, meaningful affirmation of - and appeal to - a nation replete with myriad possibilities. The scope of this multifaceted critique renders it invaluable to students and teachers of the American novel and realism as well as to general readers, critics, and researchers. This concise volume includes chronology, historical context, analysis, plus notes, a selected bibliography, and index.

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Practical Ecocriticismis the first book to ground environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology, and to attempt to bridge the ever-widening gulf between the "Two Cultures." Glen Love―himself one of the founders of ecocriticism―argues that literary studies has been diminished by a general lack of recognition for the vital role the biological foundation of human life plays in cultural imagination. Love presents with great clarity and directness an invaluable model for how to incorporate Darwinian ideas―the basis for all modern biology and ecology―into ecocritical thinking.
Beginning with an overview of the field of literature and environment and its claim to our attention, and arguing for a biologically informed theoretical base for literary studies, Love then aims the lens of this critical perspective on the pastoral genre and works by canonical writers such as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Dean Howells. A markedly interdisciplinary and refreshingly accessible work, Practical Ecocriticism will interest and challenge the entire ecocritical community, as well as humanists, social scientists, and others concerned with the current rediscovery of human nature.

Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)

History & Criticism

Univ of Virginia Pr

Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities)

University of Virginia Press

A study of the fiction of five early modern novelists--Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Sinclair Lewis--who reflect the conflicting values of a western past and an urban-industrial present.

New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern Experience in the American Novel

UNKNO

The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction (Oregon Literature)

This first of a six-volume anthology of literature by Oregonians or about Oregon contains old and new short stories and some Native American oral tales.

United States

Oregon State University Press

This first of a six-volume anthology of literature by Oregonians or about Oregon contains old and new short stories and some Native American oral tales.

Davis Country brings together a fascinating collection of the distinctive writings of H. L. (Harold Lenoir) Davis, one of the Northwest’s premier writers and perhaps the most famous Oregon writer of his generation. His influence on Northwest literature is comparable to Mark Twain’s on American literature. Born in southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis spent his teen years in Antelope and The Dalles working as a sheepherder, cattle puncher, typesetter, and deputy sheriff. He began writing poetry during World War I, but with the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, then America’s foremost literary critic, he switched to prose. He won the prestigious Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine at age twentyfive and is the only Oregonian ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his 1935 novel Honey in the Horn, which Mencken called the best first novel ever published in America. Davis’s work displays a rich knowledge of Northwest history and folklore. His intimate familiarity with the region’s landscape—his environmental sense, his feel for Northwest weather, trees, plants, animals, for the varieties of Oregon rain, for the smell of forest winds and high-desert heat—is unmatched and will enthrall a new generation of readers. To read Davis today is to discover incomparable natural settings, earthy backwoods characters, and a laconic, colloquial narrative voice. This anthology gathers a selection of Davis’s finest essays and stories, his best poems, and a sampling of his opinionated letters on his life and writing craft, as well as excerpts from his most famous novels, Honey in the Horn and Winds of Morning. An introduction by editors Brian Booth and Glen Love, a brief autobiography, and an afterword by Glen Love on Davis’s final, unfinished novel provide a better understanding of this truly original Northwest voice.

Davis Country: H.L. Davis's Northwest (Northwest Readers)

Booth, Brian

Don Berry (Western Writers Series #35)

Boise State Univ.

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Babbitt: An American Life (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Babbitt: An American Life (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)

Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities)

New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern Experience in the American Novel

The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction (Oregon Literature)

The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction (Oregon Literature)

Davis Country: H.L. Davis's Northwest (Northwest Readers)

Don Berry (Western Writers Series #35)