Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American author, augmented local-color writing by the new naturalistic techniques that combined realism with a sense of the individual's overwhelming struggle agai...
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Hamlin Garland wrote over forty books, two of which remain important today. One of these is Main-Travelled Roads (1891), realistic short stories about midwestern farmers, while the other is Garland's ...
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In spite of his long and productive career Hamlin Garland is a neglected literary figure. With the exception of his early collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads (1891), and his autobiograph...
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During a productive and varied literary career Hamlin Garland published almost fifty volumes. But his reputation rests principally on his short fiction written before 1895, and particularly on his vol...
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Hamlin Garland is now known almost solely for his short middle-border fiction written before 1895, particularly for his provocative and innovative collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads: Si...
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A prominent figure in nineteenth-century American literature, Howells was one of the leading advocates and practitioners of literary realism in the United States. He offered early encouragement for Ga...
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Duffey is an American educator and critic whose books include Modern American Literature (1951). Below, he asserts that for Garland "reform and realism were never in themselves primary literary...
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Bledsoe is an American author, editor, and educator. In this excerpt, he comments on Garland's genesis as a fiction writer and his ultimate deterioration, but the critic upholds the artistic ac...
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Koerner is an American critic and educator. Here, he presents a rebuttal to Bernard Duffey's 1953 argument regarding Garland's sincerity as realist and a writer of protest fiction. Koern...
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Pizer is an American critic and educator and a prominent authority on Garland's life and works, having served as editor for the author's Diaries (1968) and the novel Rose of Dutcher�...
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In the following excerpt, Folsom examines Garland's treatment of Native American assimilation into Euro American society. The critic finds that most of the stories in The Book of the American I...
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In the following excerpt, Saum reviews the various reform movements that Garland promoted in his short stories and asserts that, despite his consideration of society's ills in his early works, ...
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Henry Nash Smith on the Importance of Garland's Short Fiction:
Garland's early stories are not a literary achievement of the first or even of the second rank, but they mark the end of a...
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In the following excerpt, Krauth examines Garland's depiction of the elderly in Main-Travelled Roads and Prairie Folks, maintaining that the author gave "serious, extended, and successfu...
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In the following excerpt, the anonymous critic comments on Garland's "earnest" depiction of rural toil in Main-Travelled Roads and cautions that the unremitting despair of the sto...
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Matthews was an influential American critic and educator of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the following excerpt, he praises the insight and originality of Main-Travelled Roads,...
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Van Doren was an American educator, editor, and author. In the following essay, he recognizes Garland as the literary predecessor to later writers, such as Sinclair Lewis, whose fiction painted a blea...
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In the following review of The Book of the American Indian, Phillip praises Garland's stories about Native Americans as a valuable addition to the literature of the United States.
[The Book of ...
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In the excerpt below, Dondore discusses the grim portrayals of rural life in Garland's short stories, recognizing them as truthful depictions drawn from the author's own experiences.
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Hicks was an American literary critic whose famous study The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the Civil War (1933) established him as the foremost advocate of Marxist cr...
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Taylor was an American critic and educator whose books include A Literary History of the United States (1948). In the following excerpt, Taylor traces the economic and social influences that shaped Ga...
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In this excerpt, Knight details the events that inspired Garland's fiction and analyzes the stories in Main-Travelled Roads, Prairie Folks, and Wayside Courtships.
[William Dean] Howells had no...
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland
(Hannibal) Hamlin Garland
