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Historical Context of Elmer Gantry Progressive Movements ...

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    1. Historical Context of Elmer Gantry Progressive Movements leading into the 1920s: Socialist movement Farmer’s alliances Industrial labor unions Struggles against racism Women’s movements prohibiting child labor right to vote prohibition of alcohol “Higher Criticism” undermines Christianity and literal interp. of Bible Applied methods of historical and literary analysis. Revealed similarities to other religions and mythologies. Protestant Fundamentalism react against this modern thought: Immaculate conception Physical resurrection of Jesus The atonement Second Coming of Christ Infallibility of the Scriptures

    3. Biographical Notes Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) Third son of a doctor – grandfather was a doctor – access to hundreds of medicals books. Wanted to be drummer boy in Spanish-American War. 1903 – 1906 Attended Yale University. Left to work as a janitor in Upton Sinclair’s socialist colony, Helicon Hall. Also traveled to England and Panama to find work building Panama Canal. 1908 Returned to graduate Yale. Journalist, editor, freelance writer is SF, D.C., NY 1914 Marries first wife Grace Hegger. 1917 Son, Wells, is born. 1920 Main Street. 1922 Babbitt. 1925Arrowsmith.

    4. Work on Gantry 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial in Dayton, Tenn. 1926 Pulizter Prize. Father dies. Early 1927 Spoke in pulpits to experience being a preacher. 1928 Divorces Grace and marries Dorothy Thompson. 1930 Awarded Nobel Prize. Son, Michael, is born. 1930 – 1951 “The Decline” Second divorce. Son, Wells, killed in WWII Son, Michael, unsuccessful actor Skin disease, heart disease Died alone in Rome of alcoholism

    5. American Nobel Prize Winners 1930 Sinclair Lewis 1936 Eugene O’Neill 1938 Pearl S. Buck 1948 T.S. Eliot 1949 William Faulkner 1954 Ernest Hemingway 1962 John Steinbeck 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1993 Toni Morrison

    6. One of Lewis’ Favorite Recipes: Sinful Christmas Cookies ˝ lb. butter ˝ cup finely chopped almonds 2 eggs 1 shot bourbon 2 cups sugar 1 tsp. baking soda 2 tbsp. Droste’s cocoa 2 cups flour from John Koblas’ book, Sinclair Lewis: Home at Last

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