The first section of this page contain primary and secondary sources concerning the life and works of Sinclair Lewis. They are organized by novel starting with Lewis’s first book. Please keep in mind that it is not an exhaustive list. The second section is a collection of miscellaneous scholarly works that do not refer to a specific novel.
Scholarly Work about Specific Novels
Our Mr. Wrenn (1914)
Coleman, Arthur. “The Americanization of H. G. Wells: Sinclair Lewis’ Our Mr. Wrenn.” Modern Fiction
Studies (1985): 495-501.
Free Air (1919)
Fleming, Robert E. Introduction. Free Air. By Sinclair Lewis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska P, 1993. v-x.
Main Street (1920)
Allen, Dennis. “The Wilderness Convention in Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith.” Gypsy Scholar 6
(1979): 74-92.
Blanchard, Lydia. “Gray Darkness and Shadowy Trees’: Carol Kennicott and the Good Fight for Utopia Now.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud University, 1985. 125-33.
Brooks, Jon William. Sinclair Lewis’s Liminal Entities. Diss. University of Alabama, 1992. DAI 52 (1992): 4326A.
Bucco, Martin. Introduction. Main Street. By Sinclair Lewis. New York: Penguin, 1995. vii-xxi.
—. Main Street: The Revolt of Carol Kennicott. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Carothers, James B. “Midwestern Civilization and Its Discontents: Lewis’s Carol Kennicott and Roth’s Lucy Nelson.” Midwestern Miscellany 9 (1981): 21-30.
Coard, Robert L. “Edith Wharton’s Influence on Sinclair Lewis.” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 511-27.
Coblentz, Stanton A. “Main Street.” Bookman 52 (Jan. 1921): 357-58.
Cohen, Paula Marantz. “Return to Main Street: Sinclair Lewis and the Politics of Literary Reputation.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 5-20.C.
Crowe, David. “Illustrations as Interpretation: Grant Wood’s ‘New Deal’ Reading of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 95-111.
Cypert, Rick. “Intellectuals, Introverts, and Cranks: What the Misfits Tell Us about Small Town Life.” Markham Review 16 (1986): 3-7.
Davenport, F. Garvin. “Gopher-Prairie-Lake-Wobegon: The Midwest as Mythical Space.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 171-77.
Eby, Clare Virginia. “‘Extremely Married’: Marriage as Experience and Institution in The Job, Main Street, and Babbitt.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 38-51.
Fisher, Joel. “Sinclair Lewis and the Diagnostic Novel: Main Street and Babbitt.” Journal of American Studies 31 (1986): 421-33.
Fleming, Robert E. “The Influence of Main Street on Nella Larson’s Quicksand.” Modern Fiction Studies 20 (1986): 421-33.
Frank, Linda Pinsker. Bovarysm, Its Concept and Applications to Literature: Stendhal, Flaubert, Hardy, Alas,and Lewis. Diss. Purdue University, 1986. DAI 46.7 (1986): 1931-1932A.
Grabbe, Hans-Jurgen. “The Ideal Type of Small Town: Main Street in a Social Science Context.”
Amerikastudien 32 (1987): 181-90.
Grebstein, Sheldon N. “Sinclair Lewis in Retrospect.” Gazette of the Grolier Club N.S. 37 (1985): 35-44.
Gross, Barry. “The Revolt That Wasn’t: The Legacies of Critical Myopia.” CEA Critic 39.2 (1977): 4-8.
—. “‘Yours Sincerely, Sinclair Levy’: Lewis and the Jews.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented
at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 1-9.
Hapke, Laura. Tales of the Working Girl: Wage-Earning Women in American Literature, 1890-1925.
Boston: Twayne-Macmillan, 1992.
Hutchisson, James M. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1996.
Knodel, Bea. “For Better or for Worse…” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 555-63.
Kraft, Stephanie. “Sinclair Lewis: No Castles on Main Street.” No Castles on Main Street. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1979. 145-51.
Lincoln, Eleanor H. “Carol Kennicott, Survivor.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial
Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 245-52.
Love, Glen A. “New Pioneering on Prairies: Nature, Progress, and the Individual in the Novels of Sinclair Lewis.” American Quarterly 25 (1973): 558-77.
—. “The Western Writings of Sinclair Lewis.” A Literary History of the West. Ed. Max Westbrook and James H. Maguire. Fort Worth: Texas Christian U P, 1987. 754-63.
Lundquist, James. “The Sauk Centre Sinclair Lewis Didn’t Write About.” Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis. Ed. Martin Bucco. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986. 221-33.
MacDonald, R.D. “Measuring Leacock’s Mariposa against Lewis’s Gopher Prairie: A Question of
Monuments.” Dalhousie Review 71 (1991): 84-103.
Marshall, James. “Pioneers of Main Street.” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 529-45.
Martin, Edward A. “The Mimic as Artist: Sinclair Lewis.” H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1984. 115-38.
Meyer, Wayne H. “From Gopher Prairie to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota: From Sinclair Lewis and Garrison Keillor on the Small Town Experience.” Centennial Review 31 (1987): 432-46.
Miller, John E. “The Distance between Gopher Prairie and Lake Wobegon: Sinclair Lewis and Garrison Keillor on the Small Town Experience.” Centennial Review 31 (1987): 432-46.
Morgan, William T. “Sauk Centre as Artifcat: The Town as Seen in History, Painting, Architecture, and Literature.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 113-23.
Norris, George O., III. “They Are Such Things as Dreams Are Made On: A Study of Carol Kennicott and Emma Bovary.” McNeese Review 26 (1979-1980): 35-39.
Oehlschaeger, Fritz H. “Hamlin Garland and the Pulitzer Prize Controversy of 1921.” American Literature 51 (1979): 409-14.
Parry, Sally E. “Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want to Live There?” Midwestern Miscellany 20 (1992): 15-27.
Piacentino, Edward J. “Main Street Comes to Tennessee: A Southern Rendition of ‘The Revolt from the Village.'” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 45-56.
Ryder, Mary R. “Sinclair Lewis and Willa Cather: The Intersectin of Main Street with One of Ours.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 147-61.
Salamone, Frank A. “The Reproduction of Main Street: The American Diplomatic Corps in Nigeria.” Mosaic 26.4 (1993): 87-102.
Shang, Dezhong. “On the Main Characters in Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street.” Foreign Literatures 2 (1987): 70-73.
Shulman, David. “A Sinclair Lewis Word Play.” American Speech 67.1 (1992): 112.
Town, Caren J. “‘A Scarlet Tanager on an Ice-Floe’: Women, Men, and History on Main Street.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 80-93.
Turim, Maureen. “I Married a Doctor: Main Street Meets Hollywood.” The Classic American Novel and the Movies. Ed. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Ungar, 1977. 206-17.
Updike, John. “Exile on Main Street.” New Yorker, 17 May 1993, 91-97.
Van Doren, Carl. Introduction. Main Street. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1946. 7-9.
Vidal, Gore. “The Romance of Sinclair Lewis.” New York Review of Books 39 (8 October 1992): 14, 16-20.
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Businessman in American Literature. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1982.
Wershoven, Carol. “Designs for Marriage: Revision and Reversal.” Child Brides and Intruders. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. 243-54.
Williams, James. “Gopher Prairie or Prairie Style? Wright and Wharton Help Dodsworth Find His Way Home.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitison, 1997. 125-46.
Babbitt (1922)
Batchelor, Helen. “A Sinclair Lewis Portfolio of Maps: Zenith to Winnemac.” Modern Language Quarterly 32 (1971): 401-8.
Brooks, Jon William. Sinclair Lewis’s Liminal Entities. Diss. University of Alabama, 1992. DAI 52 (1992): 4326A.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. “Textual Variants in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt.” Studies in Bibliography 11 (1958): 263-68.
Clark, Walter H., Jr. “Sinclair Lewis and J.F. Powers: A Comparison of Babbitt and Morte D’Urban.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 57-64.
Di Renzo, Anthony. Introduction. If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. Ed. Anthony Di Renzo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.
Eby, Clare Virginia. “Babbitt as Veblenian Critique of Manliness.” American Studies 34.2 (1993): 5-23.
—. “Extremely Married’: Marriage as Experience and Institution in The Job, Main Street, and Babbitt.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 38-51.
Fisher, Joel. “Sinclair Lewis and the Diagnostic Novel: Main Street and Babbitt.” Journal of American Studies 20 (1986): 421-33.
Foster, Ruel E. “Lewis’s Irony–A Paralysis of the Heart.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 33 (1987): 31-39.
Gale, Robert L. “Lewis’ Babbitt.” Explicator 39.3 (1981): 39-40.
Gross, Barry. “‘Yours Sincerely, Sinclair Levy’: Lewis and the Jews.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 1-9.
Hines, Thomas S., Jr. “Echoes fro ‘Zenith’: Reactions of American Businessmen to Babbitt.” Business History Review 41 (1967): 124-40.
Hutchisson, James M. “‘All of Us Americans at 46′: The Making of Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt.” Journal of Modern Literature 18.1 (1994): 95-114.
—. “‘Babbitt in Overalls’: Sinclair Lewis’ Abandoned Later Novel.” South Dakota Review 29.4 (1991): 5-22.
—. Introduction. Babbitt. By Sinclair Lewis. New York: Penguin, 1996. vii-xxx.
—. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1996.
Lewis, Robert W. “Babbitt and the Dream of Romance.” North Dakota Quarterly 40.1 (1972): 7-14.
Love, Glen A. Babbitt: An American Life. New York: Twayne, 1993.
—. “Babbitt’s Dance: Technology, Power, and Art in the Novels of Sinclair Lewis.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 75-85.
—. “The Western Writings of Sinclair Lewis.” A Literary History of the West. Ed. Max Westbrook and James H. Maguire. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1987. 754-63.
Martin, Edward A. “The Mimic as Artist: Sinclair Lewis.” H.L. Mecken and the Debunkers. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1984. 115-38.
Matheson, T.J. “‘Misused Language: The Narrator’s Satiric Function in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 75-85.
Norris, Hoke. “Babbitt Revisited.” Yale Review 68 (1978): 53-70.
Parry, Sally E. “Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and the Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want to Live There?.” Midwestern Miscellany 20 (1992): 15-27.
Piacentino, Edward J. “Babbittry Southern Style: T.S. Stribling’s Unfinished Cathedral.” Markham Review 10 (1981): 36-39.
Reitinger, D.W. “A Source for Tanis Judique in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 23.5 (1993): 3-4.
Smoller, Sandford, J. “The ‘Booboisie’ and Its Discontents.” The Classic American Novel and the Movies. Eds. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Ungar, 1977. 226-38.
Town, Caren J. “A Dream More Romantic: Babbitt and Narrative Discontinuity.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 22 (1897) 41-49.
Updike, John. “Exile on Main Street.” New Yorker, 17 May 1993, 91-97.
Vidal, Gore. “The Romance of Sinclair Lewis.” New York Review of Books 39 (8 October 1992): 14, 16-20.
Watts, Rebecca. “Babbitt.” Rev. of Babbitt. The New Statesman 21 (Oct. 1922): 78, 80. Rpt. in Sinclair
Lewis: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Mark Schorer. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1962. 23-26.
Williams, Michael. “Babbittry into Vickery.” Commonweal 17 (22 Mar. 1933): 567-69.
Wilson, Christopher P. “‘Sinclair Lewis and the Passing of Capitalism.” American Studies 24.2 (1983): 95-108.
Arrowsmith (1925)
Brieger, Gert H. “Arrowsmith and the History of Medicine in America.” Mobius 2.3 (1982): 32-38.
Brooks, Jon William. Sinclair Lewis’s Liminal Entities. Diss. University of Alabama, 1992. DAI 52 (1992): 4326A.
Coard, Robert L. “Jack London’s Influence on Sinclair Lewis.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 1-9.
—. “Sinclair Lewis, Max Gottlieb, and Sherlock Holmes.” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 565-71.
Gross, Barry. “‘Yours Sincerely, Sinclair Levy’: Lewis and the Jews.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 1-9.
Hutchisson, James M. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1996.
—. “Sinclair Lewis, Paul de Kruif, and the Composition of Arrowsmith.” Studies in the Novel 24 (1992): 48-66.
—. “Arrowsmith and the Political Economy of Medicine.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 110-24.
Land, Mary G. “Three Max Gottliebs: Lewis’s, Dreiser’s, and Walker Percy’s View of the Mechanist-Vitalist Controversy.” Studies in the Novel (1983): 314-31.
Love, Glen A. “The Western Writings of Sinclair Lewis.” A Literary History of the West. Ed. Max Westbrook and James H. Maguire. Fort Worth: Texas Christian U P, 1987. 754-63.
Oehlschlaeger, Fritz H. “Sinclair Lewis, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and the Writing of Arrowsmith.” Resources for American Literary Study 9 (1979): 24-30.
Richardson, Lyon F. “Arrowsmith: Genesis, Development, Versions.” American Literature (1955): 225-44.
Rosenberg, Charles E. “Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero.” American Quarterly 14.3 (1963): 447-58.
Scott, Philip A. The Medical Research Novel in English and German, 1900-1950. Bowling Green:
BowlingGreen State University Popular Press, 1992.
Ware, Elaine. “A Psychological Portrait of Infantile Retrogression in Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith.” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9 (1989): 166-73.
Mantrap (1926)
Fleming, Robert E. “Sinclair Lewis vs. Zane Grey: Mantrap as Satirical Western.” MidAmerica 9 (1982): 124-38.
Koblas, John J., and Dave Page, eds. Sinclair Lewis and Mantrap: The Saskatchewan Trip. Madison: Main Street Press, 1985.
Marovitz, Sanford E. “Ambivalences and Anxieties: Character Reversals in Sinclair Lewis’ Mantrap.” Studies in American Fiction 16 (1988): 229-36
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Blake, Nelson Manfred. “How to Learn History from Sinclair Lewis and Other Uncommon Sources.” American Character and Culture in a Changing World: Some Twentieth-Century Perspectives. Ed. John A. Hague. Westport: Greenwood, 1979. 111-23.
Dixon, Wheeler. “Cinematic Adaptations of the Works of Sinclair Lewis.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 191-200.
Higgs, Robert J. “Religion and Sports: Three Muscular Christians in American Literature.” American Sport Culture: The Humanistic Dimensions. Ed. Wiley Lee Umphlett. Lewisburg: Buknell UP, 1985. 226-34.
Hutchisson, James M. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1996.
Killough, George. “Elmer Gantry, Chaucer’s Pardoner, and the Limits of Serious Words.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 162-74.
Martin, Edward A. “The Mimic as Artist: Sinclair Lewis.” H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers. Athens: U of Georgia P., 1984. 115-38.
Mayer, Gary H. “Love is More Than the Evening Star: A Semantic Analysis of Elmer Gantry and The Man Who Knew Coolidge.” American Bypaths: Essays in Honor of E. Hudson Long. Eds. Robert G. Collmer and Jack W. Herring. Waco: Baylor UP, 1980. 145-66.
Moore, James Benedict. “The Sources of Elmer Gantry.” New Republic 143 (8 Aug. 1960): 17-18.
Piacentino, Edward J. “Babbittry Southern Style: T.S. Stribling’s Unfinished Cathedral.” Markham Review 10 (1981): 36-39.
Prioleau, Elizabeth S. “The Minister and the Seductress in American Fiction: The Adamic Myth Reduz.” Journal of American Culture 16.4 (1993): 1-6.
Shillito, Edward. “Elmer Gantry and the Church in America.” Nineteenth Century and After 101 (1927): 739- 48.
The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)
Mayer, Gary H. “Love is More Than the Evening Star: A Semantic Analysis of Elmer Gantry and The Man Who Knew Coolidge.” American Bypaths: Essays in Honor of E. Hudson Long. Ed. Robert G. Collmer and Jack W. Herring. Waco: Baylor U P, 1980. 145-66.
Richardson, Lyon F. “Revisions in Sinclair Lewis’s The Man Who Knew Coolidge.” American Literature 25 (1953): 326-33.
Takahashi, Mamoru. “A Study of Sinclair Lewis’s Narrator: A Bakhtinian Reading of The Man Who Knew Coolidge.“ International Budo University Journal 8 (1992): 83-94.
Dodsworth (1929)
Anderson, Hilton. “A Whartonian Woman in Dodsworth.” Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter 1 (1969): 5-6.
Dixon, Wheeler. “Cinematic Adaptations of the Works of Sinclair Lewis.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 191-200.
Guthrie, Roman. “The Birth of Myth, or How We Wrote Dodsworth.” Dartmouth College Library Bulletin n.s., 3 (Apr.-Oct. 1960): 50-54.
Hutchisson, James M. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1996.
Knodel, Bea. “For Better or for Worse…” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 555-63.
LaValley, Albert J. “The Virtures of Unfaithfulness.” The Classic American Novel and the Movies. Eds. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Ungar, 1977. 273-85.
Love, Glen A. “The Western Writings of Sinclair Lewis.” A Literary History of the West. Eds. Max Westbrook and James H. Maguire. Fort Worth: Texas Chrisitan UP, 1987. 754-63.
Morgan, Speer, and William Holtz. “Fragments from a Marriage: Letters of Sinclair Lewis to Grace Hegger Lewis.” Missouri Review 11.1 (1988): 71-98.
Parry, Sally E. “The Changing Faces of Sinclair Lewis’ Wives.” Studies in American Fiction 17.1 (1989): 65-79.
—. “Dodsworth and the World So Wide: Sinclair Lewis’s European/American Dilemma.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 27-35.
Puzon, Bridget. “From Quest to Cure: The Transformation of Dodsworth.” Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 573-80.
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Businessman in American Literature. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1982.
Williams, James. “Gopher Prairie or Prairie Style? Wright and Wharton Help Dodsworth Find His Way Home.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitison, 1997. 125-46.
Ann Vickers (1933)
Chalupova, Eva. “The Thirties and the Artistry of Lewis, Farrell, Dos Passos and Steinbeck.” Brno Studies in English 14 (1981) 107-15.
Fleming, Robert E. “Lewis’s Two ‘Feminist’ Novels: The Job and Ann Vickers.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 52-67.
Hapke, Laura. Daughters of the Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995.
Maglin, Nan Bauer. Introduction. Ann Vickers. By Sinclair Lewis. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994. ix-xx.
Mcs., J. Review of Ann Vickers. Catholic World 136 (Feb. 1933): 622-24.
Parry, Sally E. “The Changing Faces of Sinclair Lewis’s Wives.” Studies in American Fiction 17.1 (1989): 65-79.
—. “Boundary Ambiguity and the Politics of Abortion: Women’s Choices in Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 68-79.
Wershoven, Carol. “Designs for Marriage: Revision and Reversal.” Child Brides and Intruders. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1993. 243-54.
Williams, Michael. “Babbittry into Vickery.” Commonweal 17 (22 Mar. 1933): 567-69.
It Can’t Happen Here (1935)
Chalupova, Eva. “The Thirties and the Artistry of Lewis, Farrell, Dos Passos and Steinbeck.” Brno Studies in English 14 (1981) 107-15.
Coard, Robert L. “Jack London’s Influence on Sinclair Lewis.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 157-70.
Jones, James T. “A Middle-Class Utopia: Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conferece. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 213-25.
Knoenagel, Axel. “The Historical Context of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here.” Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995): 221-36.
Korn, Marjorie Susan. It Can’t Happen Here: Federal Theatre’s Bold Adventure. Diss. University of Missouri, 1978. DAI 39 (1978): 5811-5812A.
Meisel, Perry. Introduction. It Can’t Happen Here. By Sinclair Lewis. New York: Signet, 1993. 7-13.
McLaughlin, Robert L. “Mark Schorer, Dialogic Discourse, and It Can’t Happen Here.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 21-37.
Perham, Judy F. “Reading It Can’t Happen Here with College Freshmen.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 235-44.
Tanner, Stephen L. “Sinclair Lewis and Fascism.” Studies in the Novel 22 (1990): 57-66.
The Prodigal Parents (1938)
Hersey, John. “First Job.” Yale Review 76.2 (1987): 184-97.
Cass Timberlane (1945)
Parry, Sally E. “The Changing Fictional Faces of Sinclair Lewis’ Wives.” Studies in American Fiction 17.1 (1989): 65-79.
Kingsblood Royal (1947)
Fleming, Robert E. “Kingsblood Royal and the Black ‘Passing’ Novel.” Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis. Ed. Martin Bucco. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986. 214-21.
Lewis, Sinclair. “A Note about Kingsblood Royal.“ A Sinclair Lewis Reader: The Man from Main Street. Eds. Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane. New York: Random House, 1953. 36-41.
Parry, Sally E. “Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want to Live There?” Midwestern Miscellany 20 (1992): 15-27.
—. “Boundary Ambiguity and the Politics of Abortion: Women’s Choices in Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 68-79.
Watts, Edward. “Kingsblood Royal, The God-Seeker, and the Racial History of the Midwest.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 94-109.
The God-Seeker (1949)
Suderman, Elmer F. “The God Seeker in Sinclair Lewis’s Novels.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centenial Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 227-34.
Watts, Edward. “Kingsblood Royal, The God-Seeker, and the Racial History of the Midwest.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 94-109.
World So Wide (1951, posthumously)
Lundquist, James. “World So Wide and Sinclair Lewis’s Rewritten Life.” Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter 2 (1970): 13.
Parry, Sally E. “Dodsworth and World So Wide: Sinclair Lewis’s European/American Dilemma.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference. Ed. Michael Conaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 27-34.
Miscellaneous Scholarly Works
Adamic, Louis. “‘Red’ Lewis.” My America. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938.
Anderson, David D. “Sinclair Lewis and the Midwestern Tradition.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Converence. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 253-65.
—. “Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel Prize.” MidAmerica 8 (1981): 9-21.
Anderson, Sherwood. “Four American Impressions: Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner, Sinclair
Lewis.” New Republic October 11, 1922: 171-73. Rpt. in Sinclair Lewis: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Mark Schorer. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Atlas, James. “Speaking Ill of the Dead.” New York Times Magazine November 6, 1988: 40-48.
Austin, Allen. “An Interview with Sinclair Lewis.” University of Kansas City Review 24 (1958): 199-210.
Bain, David Haward. “A House and a Household.” Kenyon Review 11 (1989): 86-99.
Beck, Warren. “How Good is Sinclair Lewis?” Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis. Ed. Martin Bucco. Boston:
G. K. Hall, 1986. 95-103.
Belgion, Montgomery. “How Sinclair Lewis Works.” Bookman 65 (January 1924): 195-96.
Benet, William Rose. “The Earlier Lewis.” Saturday Review January20, 1934: 421-22.
Berg, Adelyne. “Sinclair Lewis and Rules.” The Writer 74 (August 1961): 12-13, 37.
Bloom, Harold. Introduction. Sinclair Lewis: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1-4.
Brune, Ruth E. “Sinclair Lewis.” English Journal 44 (1955): 477-78.
Bucco, Martin, ed. Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986.
—. “The Serialized Novels of Sinclair Lewis.” Western American Literature 4 (1969): 29-37. Rpt. in
Sinclair Lewis: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom, and Critical Essays on Sinclair Lewis. ed. Martin Bucco .
—. “Sinclair Lewis and ‘The Greatest American Novelist.'” Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter 29.1 (1985): 3-4.
—. “Sinclair Lewis, Max Besont, and Henry James.” Henry James Review 13 (1992): 90-91.
—. “Sinclair Lewis’s Newsweek Essays.” Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial
Conference. Ed. Michael Connaughton. St. Cloud: St. Cloud State University, 1985. 179-89.
—. “Sinclair Lewis on Authorship.” Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997. 173-84.
Bunge, Nancy L. “The Midwestern Novel: Walt Whitman Transplanted.” Old Northwest 3 (1977): 275-87.
Chabris, Daniel D. “Sinclair Lewis: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club.” Gazette of the Grolier Club N.S. 37 (1985): 45-82.
Coard, Robert. “Names in the Fiction of Sinclair Lewis.” Georgia Review 16 (1962): 318-29.
Compton, Ida L. Sinclair Lewis at Thorvale Farm: A Personal Memoir. Sarasota: Ruggles Publishing, 1988.
Conroy, Stephen S. “Sinclair Lewis’s Sociological Imagination.” American Literature 42 (1970): 348-62. Rpt. in Sinclair Lewis. Modern Critical Views., ed. Harold Bloom.
Daniels, Howell. “Sinclair Lewis and the Drama of Dissociation.” The American Novel and the Nineteen Twenties. Eds. Malcom Bradbury and David Palmer. Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies 13. London: Edward Arnold, 1971. Rpt. in Sinclair Lewis. Modern Critical Views., ed. Harold Bloom
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