Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1976
Abstract
Hamlin Garland is regarded today with both condescension and respect. His Middle-Western writings, the early and later phases of his work, are more highly regarded than are the Far-Western writings of his middle phase. The cause of this unevenness in the Garland canon can be traced to his attraction to history and story, propaganda and art, Realism and Romanticism. The boundaries of fiction and non-fiction contract and expand throughout Garland’s work, just as in his life he trailed and back-trailed from the Midwest to the East and West. In this sense Garland’s writing is inseparably autobiographical and regional; and his search for the “right” literary form parallels his westering in search of identity and “home.”
Recommended Citation
Gish, Robert. Hamlin Garland: The Far West. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1976. Digital. Western Writers Series, 24.