The American novel to-day : $b A social and psychological studyMichaud, Régis
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The American novel to-day : $b A social and psychological study
Michaud, Régis
American fiction -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature
“Gay Science,” 205, 220, 280.
“Genius, The,” 73, 77, 111-115, 195.
Glasgow, Ellen, 248.
“Golden Bowl, The,” 53.
Goncourts, the, influence of, on the American novel, 281.
Gopher Prairie, 135-144.
“Great American Novel, The,” 277.
Great War, the, 259, 266, 267, 275.
“Hand of the Potter, the,” 115.
“Happy ending,” the, 14.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, wrote the novel of manners, 4;
influence of Puritanism on, 12;
resemblances to Freudism in, 31, 32, 36-42;
attracted by problems of the inmost life, 32;
his life, 33;
his complex explained by his genealogy, 33;
the paganism of his imagination, 33, 34;
his women, 34, 38;
his conscience, 34;
haunted by the idea of crime and punishment, 34;
moral paradoxes of, 35;
as a psychologist, 36;
analysis of his “The Scarlet Letter,” 36-45;
his symbolism, 45, 46.
Hecht, Ben, 271-274.
Helvetius, 125.
Hemingway, George, 270.
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 22, 254.
Herrman, John, 270, 270 _n._
Hester Prynne, in “The Scarlet Letter,” 37-45.
“Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub,” 74, 97;
quotations from, 82-86.
“High Place, The,” 224-231.
Hilda, in “The Marble Faun,” 34, 38.
“Holiday, A,” 255.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, his “Elsie Venner,” 110 _n._
“Hoosier Holiday, A,” 74, 88-93, 95-97.
“House of Mirth, The,” 58, 59.
“House of the Seven Gables, The,” the character of Phœbe in, 34;
sin in, 34, 35;
the character of Clifford Pyncheon in, 38;
symbolism in, 45, 46.
Howells, William Dean, 22, 54;
his realism, 61, 62, 69;
his limitations, 62, 64;
divides society into two opposite classes, 63;
his moral system, 64-67;
his “A Modern Instance,” 64-66;
his “The Landlord at Lion’s Head,” 66, 67;
his ideals those of the sentimental middle class, 67-70;
and Dreiser, 126, 127;
the descent from, to Sherwood Anderson, 169 _n._;
confusion between realism and fiction in, 201.
Hugh McVey, in “Poor White,” 181, 182.
Humor, American, 48;
and irony, 224, 225.
“Humpty-Dumpty,” 271.
Hurstwood, in “Sister Carrie,” 103.
Huysmans, influence of, on the American novel, 281.
Idealism, American, buried in the grave of the Transcendentalists,
16;
is largely manufactured by women, 21;
dead in the American novel of to-day, 257;
and utilitarianism, 258, 259;
transcendental, 258, 259.
Imagination, the rights of, claimed and defended by Cabell, 200,
201,
206;
the expression of, 279.
Imperialism, pragmatic, 259;
mystic, 259.
Individual and social ethics, 124-127, 130, 136.
“Inevitable Equation, The,” 81, 97.
Inhibited, city of the, 184.
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