THE UNITED STATES 10 Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War 10 Albion Tourgée: The Blunders of Reconstruction 11 Perennial Theme: Corruption 12 _Upton Sinclair: Corruption Plus Radicalism_ 12 Growing Political Consciousness: 1930 to 1954 13 _John Steinbeck: The Party Organizer_ 14 _Sinclair Lewis: Native Fascism_ 14 _John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway: Liberal Causes Abroad_ 15 _George Weller: International Communism_ 16 _Norman Mailer: The Extreme Left_ 17 _Novels of the Cold War_ 17 GREAT BRITAIN 19 Benjamin Disraeli: Revitalized Toryism 19 Henry James: The Breakup of Victorian Tranquillity 20 Joseph Conrad: Early Cloak and Dagger 21 E. M. Forster: The Problem of Imperialism 22 Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: The Future in Perspective 23 THE CONTINENT 23 Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Nihilism and Its Rejection 23 André Malraux: Pro-Communism 24 Ignazio Silone: Disillusionment on the Left 25 Arthur Koestler: The Bolshevik on Trial 26 AFRICA 26 Alan Paton: The Race Question 27 Chapter Three. THE NOVELIST AS POLITICAL HISTORIAN 28 GREAT BRITAIN 29 George Eliot: The Early Nineteenth Century in the Midlands 30 Benjamin Disraeli and Anthony Trollope: Whigs v. Tories 30 George Meredith: The Early Radical 31 Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Victorian Portraits 31 H. G. Wells: England in Transition 32 Howard Spring: Labour and the Course of Empire 32 Joyce Cary: The Edwardian Age and After 33