Book I: Part II
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
I. Disintegration and Reintegration. For a general survey of philosophical thought during the period see W. H. Hudson, Philosophies Ancient and Modern (London, 1908); Woodbridge Riley, American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism (New York, 1915); William Archibald Dunning, A History of Political Theories from Rousseau to Spencer (New York, 1920).
Condorcet, Isidore, August Marie François Xavier, Ouvres (Paris, 1847). See also A General View of Positivism (Translated by H. J. Bridges, London, c. 1908).
Herbert Spencer, Works (18 vols., New York, 1915); see also his Illustrations of Universal Progress; a Series of Discussions (New York, 1890).
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (New York and London, 1900); and his History of Creation (2 vols., New York, 1914).
John Fiske, American Political Ideas, Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History (New York, 1899); Darwinism and Other Essays (New ed. rev. and enl., Boston, 1892); The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of his Origin (18 ed., Boston and New York, 1892); Essays Historical and Literary (2 vols., New York and London, 1902); Excursions of an Evolutionist (Boston and New York, 1892); The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge (Boston and New York, 1892); Life Everlasting (Boston and New York, 1902); Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms of the Positive Philosophy (4 vols., Boston and New York, c. 1903); Through Nature to God (Boston and New York, 1899); Unseen World and Other Essays (11th ed., Boston, 1876). For his life see J. S. Clark, Life and Letters of John Fiske (2 vols., Boston, 1917); and Henry Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, with Other Essays Somewhat Biographical and Autobiographical (Boston and New York, 1923).
II. The Skepticisms of the House of Adams. Henry Adams, The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (New York: 1920); Democracy, a Novel (New York, 1880); The Education of Henry Adams (New York, 1918); History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson and Madison (9 vols., New York, 1890–1898); John Randolph (Boston, 1895); Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres; with a Niece’s Memoirs by Mabel La Farge (Boston and New York, 1920); Life of Albert Gallatin (Philadelphia, 1880); Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Boston and New York, 1913).
Brooks Adams, America’s Economic Supremacy (New York, 1900); Law of Civilization and Decay: an Essay on History (New York, 1895); The New Empire (New York, London, 1902); The Theory of Social Revolutions (New York, 1913).
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Henry Adams, Chapters of Erie and Other Essays (Boston, 1871); Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams 1835–1915; an Autobiography (Boston and New York, 1916). See also W. C. Ford, A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861–1865 (2 vols., Boston and New York, 1920).
III. Victorian Realism. For material in Parrington’s introduction to Chapter III see Francis Marion Crawford, The Novel: What It Is (New York, 1908); and H. H. Boyesen, Literary and Social Silhouettes (New York, 1894).
Henry James, The Novels and Tales of Henry James (24 vols., New York, 1907–1909); Views and Reviews (Boston, 1908); The Letters of Henry James (2 vols., New York, 1920). For criticism and biography see Pelham Edgar, Henry James, Man and Author (Boston and New York, 1927); Rebecca West, Henry James (New York, c. 1916); Van Wyck Brooks, The Pilgrimage of Henry James (New York, 1925).
William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (New York, 1891); A Modern Instance (Boston and New York, 1881); Through the Eye of the Needle (New York and London, 1907); A Traveler from Altruria (New York, 1908); The Rise of Silas Lapham (Boston, c. 1912); April Hopes (New York, 1888); Certain Delightful English Towns; with Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between (New York and London, 1906); Indian Summer (Boston, c. 1914); Venetian Life (19th ed., new and enl., Boston, c. 1907); Criticism and Fiction (New York, 1891); Literary Friends and Acquaintance (New York and London, 1901); Literature and Life (New York and London, 1902); My Literary Passions (New York, c. 1895). For his life see Life in Letters of William Dean Howells (2 vols., Garden City, N. Y., 1928); Years of My Youth (New York, c. 1916). For critical estimates see Delmar Gross Cooke, William Dean Howells; a Critical Study (New York, c. 1922); Oscar W. Firkins, William Dean Howells (Cambridge, Mass., 1924); Alexander Harvey, William Dean Howells; a Study of the Achievement of a Literary Artist (New York, 1917).