on the primordial importance of the sexual question, 191. Drunkenness, in recent American fiction, 187 _n._ Dual personalities, 182, 184, 254, 271. Duhamel, George, 255. Dutch painters, the, 101. “Eagle’s Shadow, The,” 237. Education, American, hostile to “wish-fulfillment,” 14. Edwards, Jonathan, his sermons, 12. Eggleston, Edward, and the Dutch painters, 101 _n._ Elite and masses, in America, the feud between, 9, 10. “Elmer Gantry,” 150-153. Elsie Leander, in “The Triumph of the Egg,” 167, 187-191. Emerson, Charles, 223. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 17; a Puritan type of mind, 12; his ethics, 98; tried in “Representative Men” to delineate the ideal man, 222; a transcendental realist, 222; made much of dreams in his philosophy, 222. Emma Bovary, in “Madame Bovary,” vii, 138, 142-144, 206. English novelists, 23, 282. “Erik Dorn,” 271-273. Eroticism, the great issue of suppressed sensibilities, 187; and mysticism, 191. _See_ Sex problems, Sexual inhibition. Estaunié, Edouard, 239, 246. “Ethan Frome,” 60, 61. Ethics, the Puritan, compared with those of Dreiser, 125; conflict between social and individual, 130. Eugene Witla, in “The Genius,” 111-114. Evasions, 207, 208, 231, 254. “False Dawn,” 56 _n._ Family life, in American plays and novels, 249. Fiction, confusion between, and realism, in Howells’ work, 200, 201; Cabell’s defense of, 205-207; the craving for, 208. _See_ Novel. “Figures of Earth,” 209-212. “Financier, The,” 71-73, 77, 79, 86-88, 105-108. Firkins, Mr., 63. “Flamboyant,” 278, 279, 279 _n._ Flaubert, Gustave, 23; his “Madame Bovary,” vi, vii, 137, 138, 142-144, 206; his “Bouvard and Pecuchet,” 129; never lost sight of art, 153; his influence on the American Novel, 281. “Floating anxiety,” 19, 31, 146, 184. Florian de Puysange, in “The High Place,” 224-231. Frank, Waldo, 22; Puritanism according to, 13-16; dual personality in novels of, 254; master of the minor dialogue, 255; his novels, 255, 256. “Free Air,” 128. Free will, 116. French novel, influence of the, on American novel, 23, 281. Freud, Doctor, vi. Freudism, and Puritanism, 31; disquieting elements of, 32; in the novels of Anderson, 156, 182, 188; a literary rendering to, 184 _n._ Frost, Robert, a Puritan type of mind, 12. “Fruit of the Tree, The,” 56. Fuller, Margaret, an experience of, 142 _n._; an example of suppression, 223. Gale, Zona, 22; the chronicler of American life in the small towns, 248; her “Birth,” 248, 249; her “Miss Lulu Bett,” 250-254. Garland, Hamlin, on the case of realism _versus_ sentimentalism, 200 _n._ Gaultier, Jules de, his “Le Bovarysme,” vi.