The Significant Hamlin Garland

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'Donald Pizer has long been regarded as the leading scholar on Hamlin Garland. The articles collected in this volume trace Pizer's engagement with the subject and reflect a scholar's comprehensive grasp of the literary currents of the age. An essential book for the study of American fiction.' -James Nagel, University of Georgia 'Pizer enjoys a wide reputation as the most important scholar of American literary naturalism in general and of Hamlin Garland in particular. In the 1950s and 1960s Pizer first established the significance of Garland's work, and his essays have shaped all subsequent scholarship. He later revisited Garland, measuring the writer against new directions in critical trends and reaffirming Garland's continuing appeal for new generations of students and scholars.' -Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington 'In "The Significant Hamlin Garland" Pizer gathers his pioneering essays about the life and career of an early Pulitzer Prize recipient. It contains the best work by a major critic on an important American author.' -Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico