Sherwood Andersonâs Winesburg, Ohio, revisits a classic, twentieth-century American text. Scholars from around the world share their intrepretations and shed new light on Andersonâs contribution to Modernism and his legacy to later writers. They look closely at gender relations, masculinity, place, the nature of community, and the elusive American Dream.
Precious McKenzie is an assistant professor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
Introduction
Precious McKenzie
Small Town to City and Back Again: The Re-figuring and Loss of the American Dream in Sherwood Andersonâs Winesburg, Ohio
Josephene Kealey
Winesburg, Elsewhere: George Willard and the Literary Formalization of Obsession in Small-Town America and Abroad
Daniel Davis Wood
Failed Adventures and Imagined Communities in Sherwood Andersonâs Winesburg, Ohio
David T. Humphries
Speaking of Manhood in Winesburg, Ohio
William M. Etter
Sherwood Andersonâs Legacy to Contemporary American Writing
Rachel Luria
Sherwood Anderson and the Contemporary Short-Story Cycle
Jennifer J. Smith
Publishing Sherwood Andersonâs âGroup of Talesâ: The Textual Presentations of the Winesburg Stories and the Modernist Legacy of Winesburg, Ohio
Matthew James Vechinski
âCrude and Broken Formsâ in America: Avant-Garde and Modernist Affinities in Winesburg, Ohio
Stamatina Dimakopoulou