The Significant Hamlin Garland

This book collects the best of Donald Pizer's essays dealing with Hamlin Garland's early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.

Preface; A Selected Secondary Bibliography; Editorial Note and Acknowledgments; 1. Hamlin Garland in the 'Standard'; 2. Hamlin Garland and the Prairie West; 3. Hamlin Garland and the Radical Drama in Boston, 1889-91; 4. A Summer Campaign in Chicago: Hamlin Garland Defends a Native Art; 5. 'Main-Travelled Roads'; 6. 'Main-Travelled Roads' Revisited; 7. 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly'; 8. Sexuality in 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly'; 9. 'A Son of the Middle Border'; Notes; Index