The Problem Novel and the Diversion from Naturalism[1] (continued 1)
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
Source notes
[1] Lecture notes.—Publisher.
[2] See J. Allen Smith, The Spirit of American Government; W. A. White, The Old Order Changeth.
[3] Representative books are: C. A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) and The Economic Basis of Politics (1922); Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922).
[4] See Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom (1919); Richard Roberts, The Unfinished Programme of Democracy (1920).
[5] From the syllabus.—Publisher.
[6] From the syllabus.—Publisher.
[7] From the syllabus.—Publisher.
[8] Lecture notes.—Publisher.
[9]Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub, New York, 1920, p. 1.
[10]The Financier, New York, c. 1912, p. 250.
[11]Ibid., p. 409.
[12]Ibid., p. 479.
[13]The Financier, p. 432.
[14]Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub, p. 87.
[15] When this was written of course The American Tragedy, A Book about Myself, Dreiser’s poems, Moods Cadenced and Declaimed, and his further books of travel had not been published.—Publisher.
[16] Randolph Bourne, History of a Literary Radical, p. 203.
[17]The Financier, p. 660.
[18] Stuart P. Sherman, On Contemporary Literature, New York, 1923, p. 94. In the syllabus Professor Parrington says: “The most intelligent estimates of Dreiser are in Randolph Bourne, History of a Literary Radical; H. L. Mencken, Prefaces; and Carl Van Doren, Contemporary American Novelists. All other commentators are stupid.”
[19] Published as Number Five of University of Washington Chapbooks, 1927.—Publisher.
[20] The notes that follow are from the syllabus.—Publisher.
[21] Cabell omitted, as there is a fuller discussion of him given.—Publisher.
[22] From the syllabus.—Publisher.
[23] For a statement of the reaction of a young intellectual to the war, see Randolph Bourne, Untimely Papers, 1919.
[24] For a criticism of Nicholson, see Randolph Bourne, The History of a Literary Radical, p. 128.
[25] See Mr. Cabell’s criticism in Beyond Life, pp. 301–307.
[26] For a review see the Nation, March 19, 1924.
[27] Sinclair Lewis omitted, as fuller material has been given.—Publisher.
[28] From the third section in the syllabus, which deals with “A New Romance.”—Publisher.
[29] See Cabell’s review of Messer Marco Polo in Straws and Prayer-Books, pp. 52–59. The writer’s full name is Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne.
[30] For a striking characterization of Hergesheimer, see The Bookman, May, 1922 For an appreciation, see Cabell, Straws and Prayer-Books, pp. 195–221.
[31] See remarks on Miss Cather in the introduction to the text edition of Ole Rölvaag’s Giants in the Earth, which follows these syllabus notes.—Publisher.
[32] Introduction to the text edition of Rölvaag’s Giants in the Earth. Copyright 1929 by Harper and Brothers, by whose permission it is reprinted here.—Publisher.
[33] Lecture notes. This subject was not included in the contents, but contains some matter of interest.—Publisher.
[34] This was apparently not intended as the introduction to Part I of Book Three, but covers much of the ground indicated there.—Publisher.