Poor White (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwood Anderson
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1866-1900
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Factories, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Socialism, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Midwest, Ohio, Small-town life, Missouri, Inventions or inventors, Industrialization, Elopement
- Locales: Ohio, Missouri
Places Discussed
Mudcat Landing. Missouri town in which Hugh McVey was born, Mudcat Landing is a place where life without drinking is unbearable, where slavery has left poor whites with a deep aversion to physical labor. However, it is in Mudcat Landing that Hugh is exposed to New England pragmatic industrialism when he lives with the railroad stationmaster and his wife, the latter an energetic woman who cures him of his slothfulness and gives him a good education. She also instills in him a sense of a “glorious future.” Hugh departs for parts North and East, eventually...
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