Cass Timberlane (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Love or romance, Social issues, Marriage, 1940’s, Midwest, Adultery, Moral conditions, Judges
- Locales: New York, NY, Minnesota
Places Discussed
Grand Republic. Minnesota hometown of District Judge Cass Timberlane, located in fictional Radisson County, eighty miles north of Minneapolis, more than seventy miles from Duluth, with a population of 85,000. Having lived a large part of his life in the real town of Duluth, Sinclair Lewis describes his fictional epitome of middle America as large enough to have a painting by Jean Renoir, a school-system scandal, and both millionaires and a slum. The city has the prejudices and small- mindedness of smaller towns and the caste system of the bigger cities. Cass...
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