“Portrait of a Generation, The,” 269. “Post-Adolescence,” 269. Pragmatism, 27, 149. “Professor’s House, The,” 239, 240. Proust, Marcel, 23, 27, 53, 276, 281. Provincialism, 200 _n._ Psittacism, 184. Psychoanalysis, vi, 30-32, 156, 169, 170, 182-187. Psychology, experimental, study of, in America, 25. Psychology, studies of morbid, 182-187. Publicity in America, 146-148. Puritan ethics, and Dreiser’s, 125. Puritanism, the good points of, 11-13; the bad points of, 13; the revolt against, 13; according to Waldo Frank, 13-16; the decadence of, 15; Mencken’s arraignment of, 16; intellectual energies thwarted by, 18; inhibitions of, 18-20, 22; and psychoanalysis, 31; and James Branch Cabell, 201. _See_ Inhibition. Radicalism, intellectual and literary, birth of, 260. Radicals, American, 10, 11. Rascoe, Burton, 273 _n._ Realism, of Howells, 61, 62, 201; and fiction, confusion between, 200, 201; _versus_ sentimentalism, 200 _n._; fictitious, 201; in psychology, 201; revolt against, 201; banned by Cabell, 206, 207; of Willa Cather, 246; static, 246; optimistic, 248; later, 258, 258 _n._, 270, 271. “Reef, The,” 56. Representative men, revaluation of, 19 _n._ Responsibility for Crime, 110 _n._, 116, 118, 119. “Revisionists,” 259. “Revolt against the village,” 200 _n._ Rimbaud, Arthur, 266. “Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck, The,” 237. Robinson, a Puritan type of mind, 12. “Roderick Hudson,” 50. Romantic evasion, 207. Romanticism, a psychological disease, vii; M. Seillères, study of, 130 _n._; and Puritanism, 200; of Cabell, 205, 206. Rousseau, J. J., 125. “Runaway, The,” 254. Russian novelists, their vogue in America, 23, 281. Saint Pierre, 239, 240. Sargent, John Singer, 18. “Scarlet Letter, The,” paganism in, 34; the character of Pearl in, 34; amorality in, 35; the purpose of, 36; analysis of, 37-45. Seillères, Eugene, his study of romanticism, 130 _n._ Self, the, 27-29; dissociation and reunification of, 170. Selves, three, 127, 186. Sensibility, analysis of pathological forms of, 182-187. Sentimentalism, and the realistic novel, 200; _versus_ realism, 200 _n._ Sex problems, 59, 60, 95, 102-105, 111-115. Sexual inhibition, the problem of, 191. Shaw, G. B., his “Man and Superman,” 111. Silas Lapham, 69, 70. Sin, in Hawthorne, 34, 35. “Sister Carrie,” 73, 102-104. Social code, and instinct, 124-127, 130, 136. Socialism, 135. “Song of the Lark,” 240, 241. “Soul-fear,” 19, 31, 146, 184. “Spark, The,” 56 _n._ Standardization, vii, 282. Standards, American, 9. Stein, Gertrude, 165 _n._ Stendhal, his “Le rouge et noir,” 116.
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