Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Sinclair Lewis again / Russell Ames -- Portrait of an American citizen / H.L. Mencken -- Babbitt / Rebecca West -- Sinclair Lewis / Sherwood Anderson -- Sinclair Lewis's sociological imagination / Stephen S. Conroy -- The knight and the pioneer : Europe and America and the fiction of Sinclair Lewis / Dick Wagenaar -- For better or worse? / Bea Knodel -- Baedekers, Babbittry, and Baudelaire / David G. Pugh -- The romance of Sinclair Lewis / Gore Vidal -- "All of us Americans at 46" : the making of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt / James M Hutchisson.