Hamlin Garland in the Standard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9590104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Pizer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 401 |
| Publication date | 1954-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2921694 |
| OpenAlex | W2330002223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
HE DESIRE to express a particular economic point of view has JI been long recognized as an influential factor in Hamlin Garland's early work. However, there have been various interpretations of the motives which led Garland to adopt and later abandon economically orientated writing.1 A primary reason for misinterpretation of this phase of Garland's career, a notable example of which is Bernard I. Duffey's recent article in this publication,2 has been the lack of information regarding Garland's economic thought and activity during the years I887-I892, these years constituting the period of both his most intensive literary output and participation in political-economic affairs. Garland himself has sketchily outlined this period in various autobiographical recollections (see notes 5-7, 37 below), but a much more particular and explicit source of information is found in the previously unnoted and for the greater part uncollected appearances of Garland in the Standard.3 The Standard was begun as a single-tax weekly, with Henry George editor and proprietor, in New York on January 8, I887, during the flood tide of single-tax enthusiasm in the United States. Running for mayor of New York in November, i886, George had astonished the country by his strong showing, and his supporters immediately called for a national political party to represent singletax ideals. This new party, the United Labor party, promptly pro
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1963 - 2020 (58) |
| Highly cited | No |