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'I am a reformer - a radical - a promoter of Democracy...' - Hamlin Garland to Horace Traubel, 13 January 1892. As a self-proclaimed native son of the middle border states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, Hamlin Garland wrote short stories, novels, and essays about the harsh realities of farm life. At a time when rural romanticism was in literary vogue, he described conditions for mid-western farmers as they really were and promoted a wide variety of reforms to improve their lives, including women's rights legislation and single-tax reform. The volume reprints much of Garland's radical fiction and nonfiction from between 1887 and 1894, almost all previously uncollected, including four of his most outspoken stories depicting farm conditions of the time. Fuelled by moral outrage and a cry for justice shaped by his own family's hardships in Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota, the radical writing of his early career is filled with compassion and fury. Seeking to re-invigorate an appreciation and understanding of Garland's centrality in the rise of a post-Civil War radical spirit in American expression, this collection assembles the most vibrant and representative examples of his radical 1890s writings.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical
• Subtitle: Writings from the 1890s
• Author: Hamlin Garland, Donald Pizer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780252035098
• ID: 04868198
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2010

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