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Contents

“Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography,” by Richard Lingeman

“Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis’s Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal,” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

“Society and Foundation Join to Sponsor Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“The Reconstruction of Minnesota’s Main Street,” by Jacqueline Koenig

“A Diary of the Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Jacqueline Koenig

“A Bed and Breakfast at Twin Farms,” by Michael Frank

“Vermont’s Award-Winning Twin Farms,” by Jerry Weil

“Lewis’s Early Fiction Still Resonates Today,” rev. of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, ed. by Anthony Di Renzo, by Linda Laird Giedl

“At Last,” rev. of Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, A Collector’s and Scholar’s Guide to Identification by Stephen R. Pastore, by Daniel Chabris

“Even at 70, Elmer Gantry is Wickedly Funny: A Satirical Look at Evangelism Lewis-Style,” by Roger K. Miller

“Sauk Centre Welcomes Lewis’s Granddaughter,” by Roberta Olson

“Writer’s Hometown Showers Granddaughter Lesley Lewis with Celebrity Status,” by Kris Bergquist

“Nobel Love Letters,” by Kevin Duchschere

“Sinclair Lewis Essay Winners Awarded Scholarships,” includes essays by Rebecca Ann Stepan (Grand Prize winner) and Sabrina Marthaler (1st Runner Up)

Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the Sinclair Lewis Conference:

“Babbitt: The Literary Dimension,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University

“A Manless Novel in a Manly Time,” by Todd Michael Stanley

“Sinclair Lewis on the Nineties,” by Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University

“Neil Kingsblood: The Not so Tragic Mulatto,” by Jean Mullin Yonke

“Literary and Racial Tensions in Kingsblood Royal,” by M. Ellen DuPree, University of Nevada, Reno

“Vision, Progress, and Regular Guys: George F. Babbitt’s Rhetorical Ideals,” by Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University

“Jazzing Up American History: Using Babbitt and Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s,” by Jane Lamm Carroll, College of St. Catherine

“It Can’t Happen Here: The Liberal Imagination in an ‘Age of Ideology,'” by Jonathan Veitch, New School for Social Research

“Iron George: Myths of Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Mantrap,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“From Stereotyping to Social Critique: Babbitt‘s Italian Fortune During the Fascist Years,” by Valerio C. Ferme, University of California, Berkeley

"Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Babbitt: The Middle-Class Malcontent,” by Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology

“Heinrich Mann’s Der Untertan: ‘A German Main Street’ and More,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Publisher

Illinois State University English Department

Publication Date

Fall 1997

City

Normal, IL

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1

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