Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

Public domain photograph of Sherwood Anderson by Carl Van Vechten

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A selective list of open access literary criticism on the American short story writer Sherwood Anderson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web sites.

Literary Criticism

Bidney, Martin. Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson. Mississippi Quarterly, Fall, 1998.

Bidney, Martin. 'Windy McPherson's Son' and Silent McEachern's son: Sherwood Anderson and Light in August [William Faulkner]. Mississippi Quarterly, Summer, 1993.

Bruner, Belinda. "Pedagogy of the undressed: Sherwood Anderson's Kate Swift - from the Winesburg, Ohio collection of short stories," Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1999

Campbell, Hilbert H. The "Shadow People": Feodor Sologub and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996.

Conner, Marc C. Fathers and sons: Winesburg, Ohio and the revision of modernism. Studies in American Fiction, Autumn, 2001.

Downs, Stuart. An extended discussion of Sherwood Anderson's life and his little-studied poetry. A Special APR Supplement. American Poetry Review, May/Jun 2007.

Dunne, Robert. The Book of the Grotesque: textual theory and the editing of Winesburg, Ohio. Robert Dunne reviews a new edition of Winesburg, Ohio (Ohio Univ. Press 1997) by Ray Lewis White. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1998.

Ellis, James. Sherwood Anderson's fear of sexuality: horses, men, and homosexuality. Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1993.

Kummings, Donald D. Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1994.

Scruggs, Charles. "20th century AD," on the influence of Sherwood Anderson's writing on Jean Toomer. Studies in American Fiction, Spring, 2000.

Welford, Dunaway and Charles E. Modlin, eds. A review of Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997). Says reviewer Martin Bidney, "everyone who cares about Anderson's life and work will be interested in this diverse compilation and will profit from its generally helpful commentary." The Mississippi Quarterly, Fall, 1998.

Whalan, Mark. Dreams of manhood: narrative, gender, and history in Winesburg, Ohio. Studies in American Fiction, Autumn, 2002.

Introduction

Howe, Irving. An introduction to Winesburg, Ohio, part of a hypertext project at Univ. of Virginia

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919), at the Literary Encyclopedia, by Verna Kale, Penn State

A Teacher's Guide to Sherwood Anderson, from textbook publisher Heath

A web site on teaching Sherwood Anderson from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages."

Brief review of Winesburg, Ohio, at American Studies Today (UK web site)

An online exhibition of pictures, bibliography and some manuscripts related to Sherwood Anderson from Virginia Tech library

A list of Sherwood Anderson's works that were published in The Dial between 1920-1927

Several biographical articles on Sherwood Anderson in the Sherwood Anderson Review (taken offline at www.richmond.edu/~journalm/01summer.html)

Editions

Winesburg, Ohio Modern Library, 1919. Introduced by Ernest Augustus Boyd. Page images of this edition and complete text, at Google Books.

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