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Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - December 22, 1938
No full textA letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated December 22, 1938, in which Sinclair reflects on relationships and interactions he had as a young author
Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - June 29, 1933
No full textA brief letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated June 29, 1933, in which Sinclair mentions the author [Thomas] Hardy, calling his books 'pretentious and boring.
Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - August 5, 1940
No full textA letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated August 5, 1940, in which Sinclair thanks him for his notes on the manuscript, but will not be using some of his suggestions. Sinclair also states that he has been busy writing and getting material from his friend, Martin Birnbaum. Martin Birnbaum, a longtime friend and classmate of Sinclair, was an international art dealer, critic and author, and was the inspiration for the character Lanny Budd, the hero of the World's End series
Two literary responses to American society in the early modern era : a comparison of selected novels by Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair in relation to their portrayal of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the problem of labour, 1900-1929
No full textThis thesis analyses the responses of Theodore Dreiser and Upton
Sinclair to American society in the early modern era through their
treatment of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the
labour problem. The role of Dreiser and Sinclair as critics of American
society has often been dealt with and highly praised. Although the
thesis also discusses this particular aspect, its main purpose lies with
the comparison of Dreiser's and Sinclair's ideological and literary
responses to these socio-economic issues.
The study starts with an account of the literary climate of the
time. It shows that American literature at the close of the nineteenth
century and in the early beginning of the twentieth century stems from
the socio-economic and political unrest of the Gilded Age. American
writers demonstrated an increasing concern with the evil consequences of
the new technological development and felt it was their duty to record
the prevailing conditions and express their reactions. They used the
realist technique to describe things as they were and adopted naturalism
to give a scientific study of their society. As a mirror of American
society at the outset of the twentieth century, American fiction
reflected the unrest and contradictions of this period and gave a clearer
insight into the inner responses of American writers to the new order.
It revealed that in spite of a general feeling of anxiety and disillusionment
among American writers, individual reactions against the
current events were diverse. They varied from an attitude of resignation
and pessimistic speculations about America's future to an active desire
to break rising capitalism and to reform American society. This analysis
of Dreiser's and Sinclair's responses to some of the problems of America
has been placed to a large extent in this divided socio-economic and
literary climate. Thus while the comparison shows the two writers'
strong indictment of American society, it also shows two distinct
ideological and literary responses to its upheavals.
Then the main body of the study divides into six chapters. Chapter
one compares the socio-political and literary views of Dreiser and
Sinclair and gives, thus, an idea about the spirit with which they
treated their subject matter and the course of their literary works.
This chapter also deals with the relationship between Dreiser and
Sinclair in an attempt to find traces of a debate between the two writers
on the socio-economic and literary situations in America. The following
chapters focus on Dreiser's and Sinclair's treatment of the immigrant,
the city, the business tycoon, women, and the labour problem. Each of
these chapters starts with a brief historical account of the subject of
study as a background to the fiction. Then it shows Dreiser's and
Sinclair's respective concern with, and experience of, the problem, and
moves onto the analysis of their literary treatment of it.
The aim of this thesis has been to show that no matter what their
artistic, ideological, and philosophical beliefs, American writers in the
years of unrest which followed the large-scale industrialisation in their
country, were called to assume their social responsibilities and
contribute to the cause of social improvement
Sinclair – Gipson 1931-1932 Correspondence
No full text{"value":"1931 January 12 from P.J. Sinclair (Moshi) to Lawrence H. Gipson (Lehigh Univ.) (Typed letter indicating that Sinclair has received letters from Gipson and Professor Tomlinson who took a trip with Sinclair on the Serengetti Plains. Sinclair says he will send a manuscript to Gipson regarding Beamish which may be of interest to Gipson regarding matters of the British empire.) Scanned 1931 May 29 from P.J. Sinclair (Moshi) to Gipson (Lehigh Univ.) (three page typed letter relates Sinclair\u27s point of view regarding the troubles in East Africa and acknowledge Gipson\u27s interest in the crisis. Sinclair describes life in Tanganyika hunting on the veldt, and planting pineapples in the Hawaiian manner through paper.) Scanned 1931 October 27 from P.J. Sinclair (Moshi) to Gipson (typed letter acknowledges letter of September 15 remarking on the situation in England exceeding expectations referring to Beamish\u27s forecasting a crash. East Africa\u27s affairs are in the background but the efforts made seem to have good effect. Sinclair reports that Adm. Beamish is retiring and hope is that H.H. Beamish be nominated to replace him. Sinclair refers to "the old Manuscript" and its author – most of what Sinclair knows about it is from his grandmother.) Scanned 1932 April 11 from P.J. Sinclair (Moshi) to Gipson (handwritten letter "In view of events in England I did not send the papers relating to Beamish and De la Mothe as I first intended and I hope for some culminative event to round them off, when you would then have had a full perspective view point which would have enabled you to judge of the matter as a whole. However the papers I now send will hold some interest for you I think as they are by no means dry in themselves but hold the interest in a way which is only possible when dealing with the personal element. Your "Studies in Colonial Connecticut Taxation," is intensely interesting and somewhat parallels our case in degree, and I could not stop until I had read every word of it. Thank you very much for sending it I greatly appreciate it.\u27) Scanned (Unrelated handwritten jottings but dates mentioned are interesting "Excise 1785-1786, Phila. 1786 on brown folded paper possibly in Gipson\u27s handwriting) 1932 April 11 from P.J. Sinclair to Gipson (handwritten letter "The paper herein For a mosaic of actual history being the minor facts which make up the Tapestry and the threads of which are rarely seen. As I mentioned before it would be dangerous and not right to expose them to publicity at present, but I understand well your interest as a scholar and historian in the true facts and therefore I leave them to you with confidence.") Scanned","attr0":"description"
Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 2
No full text“Lewis and Thompson and the Writers’ War Board,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
“The Filming of Free Air”
“An Interview with Ken Cuthbertson, Author of Inside: The Biography of John Gunther,” by Susan O’Brien
“Sinclair Lewis as Seen through the Eyes of Ernest Hemingway’s Biographers,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“Sinclair Lewis, Dante, and the Jews,” a discussion by Mark Bernheim, Sally E. Parry, and Ralph Goldstein
“Sinclair Lewis,” by George Simmers from Great War Fiction Plushttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1022/thumbnail.jp
Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol 32, No. 1
No full text“New Play Based on Novel and Film of Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air,” by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
“The Filming of the Silent Movie of Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air,” by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
“George Macy’s Readers Club (1941-1943) and Sinclair Lewis,” by Shaun F. Richards, Finger Lakes Community College
“Lost Boundaries“
“Making Her Way in the Big City: Carrie Meeber in Sister Carrie and Una Golden in The Job,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“Favorite Books by Our Members”
“Literary Legends: Poll of Minnesotans Reveals Sinclair Lewis as the State’s Favorite Author of All Time”
“The (Self-) Importance of Being American: A Lesser-Known Lewis Essay on the American Expatriate Artists in 1920s Paris,” by Shaun F. Richards Finger Lakes Community College
In Memoriam: Benjamin R. Beede and Robert Gottliebhttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1093/thumbnail.jp
Traces, CSLBS Newsletter Summer 2023
No full textWith contributions from Matthew J. Smith, O.D. Jones, Sean Cham, Ella Sinclair, and Tacita Quinn
Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 26, No. 1
No full text“It Happened Here: Sinclair Lewis, White Nationalism, and the 2016 Presidential Election,” by Anthony Di Renzo, Ithaca College
“Sinclair Lewis in Business and Politics: A Great Success,” by Alexis Foran and Taneka Newman, Illinois State University
“Gideon Planish as Part of Lewis’s Critique of Language,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
“German Author Weighs in on It Can’t Happen Here,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
“Mary Astor, Edith Cortright, and Dodsworth,” Two Reviews of Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, by Edward Sorelhttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1015/thumbnail.jp
Governor of NSW Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair, Mrs Sinclair, Professor Freeman and Mrs Eileen Rafferty
No full textMount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories - Star Plots, Photos from Telescope, Site - Mr. Graeme Blackman, Mr. Robbie Sybaczynsky, Don Carney, Patrick Barling, Simon Fantich, Governor Sinclair, Mrs. Sinclair, Prof. Freeman, Mrs. Eileen Rafferty, Prof. Don Mathewson, Prof. Alex Rodgers, Kim Sebo, Prof. Em. Olin Eggen, Peter Quinn, Stuart Ryder, Pat Barling, Stephanie Cote, Don Faulkner, John Dawe, Allan Barton, Scott Griffiths, Heather Griffiths, Dr. Barry Newell, Eileen Rafferty, Mr. Buchorn, Prof. Dan Mathewson & other
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