List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: March 14, 1940
1. Return of the Private, 1860-68
2. Boy Life on the Prairie, 1868-81
3. Dakota Homesteader, 1881-84
4. Boston Mentors, 1884-85
5. The Earnest Apprentice, 1886-87
6. Single-Tax Realist, 1888
7. Life under the Wheel, 1888-89
8. Main-Travelled Roads, 1889-91
9. Table Rapper, 1890-92
10. The Campaign for Realism, 1893
11. The Iconoclast, 1893-94
12. Western Horizons, 1895
13. "Ho, for the Klondike!" 1896-98
14. The End of the Trail, 1899-1902
15. Adrift, 1903-7
16. "A Born Promoter," 1907-14
17. A Son of the Middle Border, 1914-17
18. Out of Step with the Moderns, 1918-30
19. The Historian, 1919-29
20. Fortunate Exile, 1929-40
Notes
IndexAn exploration of Garland's contributions to American literary culture and his place within the artistic context of its time
Keith Newlin is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and coeditor of the journal Studies in American Naturalism. He is the coeditor of Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (Nebraska 1998) and the editor of the forthcoming book by Isabel Garland Lord, A Summer to Be, A Memoir by the Daughter of Hamlin Garland.
"As a biography of Garland it is unsurpassed, and it is also an
invaluable work of scholarship in enriching our knowledge of
American literary history from William Dean Howells to Garland and
Stephen Crane, and from Garland to Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair
Lewis."—Roger W. Smith, Studies in American Naturalism
"In highly readable, refreshingly clear prose, Newlin takes the
reader through each phase of Garland's life and career. . . . This
biography of Garland will undoubtedly stand as the most definitive
one for years to come."—C. Johanningsmeier, CHOICE
"Garland's story is expertly and thoroughly examined. . . . Hamlin
Garland: A Life deserves a place in the library of every person
interested in the depictions of rural life or the early history of
Dakota Territory."—Jon Lauck, South Dakota History Quarterly
"Hamlin Garland: A Life is an impressive achievement and an
invaluable resource to literary scholars and researchers."—Jeffy
Swenson, Resources for American Literary Study
"Thanks to Keith Newlin's exhaustive and eloquently written
biography, we now have access to the entirety of Hamlin Garland's
quirky, historically revealing life. . . . [Hamlin Garland: A
Life] is a biography that will serve as a resource to Garland
scholars and as a detailed portrait of artistic networks
spanning the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the
twentieth century."—Philip Joseph, Western American Literature
"To relate these crucial episodes and make sense of a man whose
writings and life defy easy classification, Newlin has (like his
subject) travelled indefatigably across the land. And while Garland
struck out in his search for gold in the Klondike and for mystical
buried crosses in southern California, Newlin has, to the vast
benefit of American studies, struck pay dirt."—Quentin Martin,
American Literary Realism
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