Babbitt

Informationen zum Autor Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Illinois! having previously taught at the Universities of Wisconsin and Kentucky. He is the author of American Literature! American Culture (OUP USA! 1998) and a new book! What America Read: Taste! Class! and the Novel! 1920-1960 (UNC P! 2009). He is also editor of the journal American Literary History. Klappentext Babbitt turns the spotlight on middle America and strips bare the hypocrisy of business practice! social mores! politics! and religious institutions. In his introduction and notes Gordon Hutner explores the novel's historical and literary contexts! and highlights its rich cultural and social references. --from publisher description

About the author

Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Illinois.

Summary

George F. Babbitt is a real estate agent in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith. Complacent, acquisitive, and conformist, his awareness of something lacking in his life finally leads him to rebel. Lewis's hilarious, poignant satire on small-city businessmen exposes the hypocrisies of middle America and still has power to provoke.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Hutner, Sinclair Lewis
• Assisted by: Gordon Hutner (Editor), Gordon ( Hutner (Editor), Gordon (Professor of English Hutner (Editor), Hutner Gordon (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780199567690
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956769-0
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary