Free eBook about Winesburg, Ohio

From Duane Simolke, author of the West Texas story cycle The Acorn Stories. Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism:
New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio.

This free eBook offers students and scholars close readings of the Sherwood Anderson classic. It can also serve as a reader guide for book clubs.

CH. I : INTRODUCTION
CH. II: ANDERSON AND STEIN: SYMBIOSIS
CH. III: TEACHERS GROPING IN THE DARK
CH. IV: MEN AND WOMEN
CH. V: "MORE THAN MAN OR WOMAN"
CH. VI: INDUSTRIALISM: THE MACHINE IN THE BERRY FIELD
CH. VII: CONCLUSION: CLOSING THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE

This book examines Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, as it relates to Gertrude Stein, gender roles, failed communication, and the machine in the garden. Simolke also looks at Anderson's concerns about mechanization, loneliness, and the mistreatment of many people.

"This work should be required reading in any college course involving the art and craft of short-story writing as well as in courses on Sherwood Anderson, himself." --Ronald L. Donaghe, author of Common Sons.

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