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Sinclair Lewis and the Failure of Hollywood by Wheeler Winston Dixon is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sinclair Lewis and the Failure of Hollywood about?
As a societal force, Sinclair Lewis is perhaps without peer in the first half of the twentieth century, certainly among American writers. Whether he was a good writer-a writer of quality-is still debated today. In the 2002 biography of Lewis, Richard Lingeman comes down favorably on the side of Lewis, whereas Mark Schorer's 1961 biography is much harsher, declaiming Lewis as "one of the worst writers in modern American literature," albeit someone whose influence on American culture, both then and now, is beyond dispute. 1 No other author, with the possible exception of Jim Thompson, sketched the contours of the Midwest as well as Lewis. 2 In his key novels-Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott (1920), Babbitt (1922), and Elmer Gantry (1927)-Lewis took the true measure of his native territory and held it up for all the world to see: A wasteland of ignorance, racism, hypocrisy, materialism, and spiritual bankruptcy. In Main Street, Carol Kennicott knows she needs more than the humdrum life obtainable in the fictional yet all-too-real town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Her every attempt to escape is blocked, however, and she resigns herself to a life of intellectual emptiness-know
Who reads Sinclair Lewis and the Failure of Hollywood?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
- Author
- Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)