Sinclair Lewis - New Essays in Criticism (Hardcover)

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, dominated the decade of the 1920s with novels that attacked corruption in American business, medicine and religion. He published several other novels, before and after the 1920s, that were meant to tweak the sensibilities of the complacent middle-class. Today, as social issues are gaining prominence again in literary theory and criticism, Lewis is attracting renewed attention as a progressive and a reform novelist. In Sinclair Lewis: New Essay in Criticism, the first collection of original essays about Lewis, Hutchisson has gathered a sampling of the divergent approaches to Lewis studies that have appeared in the past several years.