Sarah Gleeson-White

Hamlin Garland is principally remembered today as a late-nineteenth-century Midwestern regionalist whose fiction and nonfiction—including his fine collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and his memoir of sorts, A Son of the Middle Border (1917)—depict the hardships of pioneer life on the Middle Border. It is undoubtedly for this reason he has been passed over by the recuperative impulses of recent critical methodologies, the exception being those studies—revisionary and...