Contemporary American Literature Part 28

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani. 1891.

The Chatelaine of La Trinite. 1892.

The Cliff-Dwellers. 1893.

With the Procession. A Novel. 1895.

The Puppet-Booth. Twelve Plays. 1896.

From the Other Side. Stories of Transatlantic Travel. 1898.

The Last Refuge. A Sicilian Romance. 1900.

Under the Skylights. 1901.

Waldo Trench and Others. Stories of Americans in Italy. 1908.

Lines Long and Short. Biographical Sketches in Various Rhythms. 1917.

On the Stairs. 1918.

Bertram Cope's Year. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bk. Buyer, 24 ('02): 185 (portrait).

Bookm. 38 ('13): 275; 47 ('18): 340.

Dial, 64 ('18): 405.

Poetry, 10 ('17): 155.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1920.

+Zona Gale+--novelist, short-story writer, dramatist.

Born at Portage, Wisconsin, 1874. B.L., University of Wisconsin, 1895; M.L., 1899. On Milwaukee papers until 1901. Later on staff of the _New York World_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. 1907.

Friends.h.i.+p Village. 1908.

Friends.h.i.+p Village Love Stories. 1909.

Mothers to Men. 1911.

When I Was a Little Girl. 1913.

Neighborhood Stories. 1914.

The Neighbors. 1914. (One-act play.) A Daughter of the Morning. 1917.

Birth. 1918.

*Miss Lulu Bett. 1920. (Play, 1921.) The Secret Way. 1921. (Poems.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Acad. 75 ('08): 595.

Bookm. 13 ('01): 520 (portrait); 25 ('07): 567 (portrait); 53 ('21): 123.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1917-19, 1920.

+Hamlin Garland+--short-story writer, novelist.

Born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, 1860, of Scotch and New England ancestry. During his boyhood, his father moved first to Iowa, then to Dakota. As a boy, Mr. Garland helped his father with all the hard work of making farmland out of prairie. While still in his teens, he was able to do a man's work. His schooling was desultory, but he finished the course at Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa, then taught, 1882-3. In 1883 he took up a claim in Dakota, but the next year went to Boston and began his career as teacher and writer.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Read the autobiographical books, _A Son of the Middle Border_ and _A Daughter of the Middle Border_, to get the background of Mr. Garland's work. Then read his essays called _Crumbling Idols_, for the literary theory on which his work was created.

2. Two literary landmarks in Mr. Garland's history are: Edward Eggleston's _The Hoosier Schoolmaster_ (1871), and Joseph Kirkland's _Zury: the Meanest Man in Spring County_ (1887). Read these and decide how much they influenced _Main-Traveled Roads_ and similar volumes of Mr.

Garland's.

3. Mr. Garland says that he presents farm life "not as the summer boarder or the young lady novelist sees it--but as the working farmer endures it." Find evidence of this.

4. Consider how far Mr. Garland's success depends upon the richness of his material, how far upon his philosophy of life and his honesty to his own experience, and how far upon his technical skill as a writer.

5. What are his most obvious limitations? What is the relative importance of his novels and of his short stories?

6. Consider separately: (1) his power of visualization; (2) his choice of significant detail; (3) his originality or lack of it; (4) his range in characterization; (5) his power of suggestion as over against his vividness of delineation; (6) his economy--or lack of it--in expression.

Where does his main strength lie?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Under the Wheel. A Modern Play in Six Scenes. 1890.

*Main-Traveled Roads. 1890.

Jason Edwards. 1891.

A Little Norsk. 1891.

*Prairie Folks. 1892.

A Spoil of Office. A Story of the Modern West. 1892.

A Member of the Third House. 1892.

Crumbling Idols. 1893. (Essays.) Prairie Songs. 1894.

*Rose of Dutcher's Coolly. 1895.

Wayside Courts.h.i.+ps. 1897.

The Spirit of Sweet.w.a.ter. 1898.

Boy Life on the Prairie. 1899. (Autobiographical.) The Eagle's Heart. 1900.

Her Mountain Lover. 1901.

The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop. A Novel. 1902.

Hesper. A Novel. 1903.

The Light of the Star. A Novel. 1904.

The Tyranny of the Dark. 1905. (Novel.) The Long Trail. A Story of the Northwest Wilderness. 1907.

Money Magic. A Novel. 1907.

The Shadow World. 1908. (Novel.) The Moccasin Ranch. A Story of Dakota. 1909.

Cavanagh, Forest Ranger. A Romance of the Mountain West. 1909.

*Other Main-Traveled Roads. 1910.

Victor Ollnee's Discipline, 1911. (Novel.) The Forester's Daughter. A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range. 1914.

They of the High Trails. 1916.

A Son of the Middle Border. 1917. (Autobiographical.) A Daughter of the Middle Border. 1921. (Autobiographical.)