John L. Sutton (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Sutton, John L. “The Regional Form as a Commodified Site in Hamlin Garland's Main-Travelled Roads.” Midamerica 23 (1996): 56-63.
[In the following essay, Sutton views Hamlin Garland's short stories of rural Midwestern farm life as social commentary on the tensions between regional and national identity.]
In “God's Ravens” (published in the June 1894 issue of Harper's), Hamlin Garland's protagonist, Robert Bloom, feels he can escape the pressures of life in Chicago by moving back to...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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