Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
continues to stand as a "classic" of modernist American fiction. In original new
essays by David H. Stouck, Marcia Jacobson, Clare E. Colquitt, and Thomas
Yingling, Winesburg is reconsidered in the contexts of the expressionist
movement, the American boy-book tradition, the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, and
the rise of industrial capitalism. An introduction by John W. Crowley reviews
the career of Sherwood Anderson and his assimilation into the literary canon.