Sherwood Anderson and the Industrial Age in the United States: A Portrait of “Winesburg, Ohio”

Abstract

The wide-scale and far-reaching changes in thought, art, science, attitudes toward tradition and all aspects of life, in the whole world, especially Western society, brought to birth and development of Modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. An emerging fully industrialized world changed daily life in cities, but in the small town in the US as well.

Sherwood Anderson writes about it in his book Winesburg, Ohio where he experiments with form and brings maybe the first elements of Modernism in prose in American literature.