Prejudices
By: H.L. Mencken
Series: Library of America -- 206-207; Library of America -- 206-207.
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598530742; 9781598530759; 9781598530766
Subjects: American essays; History and criticism; American literature; Literature
Description: These essays, first published between 1919 and 1927, ushered in a new cosmopolitanism and skepticism in twentieth-century America. Taking on all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of the American worldview that he saw, Mencken launched himself at a wide variety of targets with his usual humor and richness.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1919-1927.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1.] First, second, and third series; title: [v. 2.] Fourth, fifth, and sixth series.; title: First series. Criticism of criticism of criticism; title: The late Mr. Wells; title: Arnold Bennett; title: The dean; title: Professor Veblen; title: The new poetry movement; title: The heir of Mark Twain; title: Hermann Sudermann; title: George Ade; title: The Butte Bashkirtseff; title: Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes; title: The genealogy of etiquette; title: The American Magazine; title: The Ulster Polonius; title: The unheeded law-giver; title: The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage; title: George Jean Nathan; title: Portrait of an immortal soul; title: Jack London; title: Among the avatars; title: Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service. Second series. The National letters : Prophets and their visions ; The answering fact ; The Ashes of New England ; The ferment underground ; In the literary abattoir ; Underlying causes ; The lonesome artist ; The cultural background ; Under the campus pump ; The intolerable burden ; Epilogue; title: Roosevelt : an autopsy; title: The Sahara of the Bozart; title: The Divine Afflatus; title: Scientific examination of a popular virtue; title: Exeunt Omnes; title: The allied arts : On music-lovers ; Opera ; The music of to-morrow ; Tempo di Valse ; The Puritan as artist ; The human face ; The cerebral mime; title: The cult of hope; title: The dry millennium : The Holy War ; The lure of Babylon ; Cupid and well-water ; The triumph of idealism; title: Appendix on a tender theme : The nature of love ; The incomparable buzzsaw ; Women as spectacles ; Woman and the artist ; Martyrs ; The burnt child ; The supreme comedy ; A hidden cause ; Bad workmanship. Third series. On being an American; title: Huneker : a memory; title: Footnote on criticism; title: Das Kapital; title: Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum : The life of man ; The anthropomorphic delusion ; Meditation on meditation ; Man and his soul ; Coda; title: Star-spangled men; title: The poet and his art; title: Five men at random : Abraham Lincoln ; Paul Elmer More ; Madison Cawein ; Frank Harris ; Havelock Ellis; title: The nature of liberty; title: The novel; title: The forward-looker; title: Memorial service; title: Education; title: Types of men : The romantic ; The skeptic ; The believer ; The worker ; The physician ; The scientist ; The business man ; The king ; The average man ; The truth-seeker ; The pacifist ; The relative ; The friend; title: The dismal science; title: Matters of state : Le Contrat Social ; On minorities; title: Reflections on the drama; title: Advice to young men : To him that hath ; The venerable examined ; Duty ; Martyrs ; The disabled veteran ; Patriotism; title: Suite Américaine : Aspiration ; Virtue ; Eminence; title: Appendix: from My life as author and editor.; title: Fourth series. The American tradition; title: The husbandman; title: High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks; title: Justice under democracy; title: Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning; title: The politician; title: From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments; title: Totentanz; title: Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world; title: Essay in constructive criticism; title: On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor; title: Bugaboo; title: On government; title: Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist; title: Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal; title: The American novel; title: People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of Mnemosyne. Fifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War; title: Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters; title: In memoriam : W.J.B.; title: The hills of Zion; title: Beethoven; title: Rondo on an ancient theme; title: Protestantism in the Republic; title: From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff; title: The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village; title: Essay in pedagogy; title: On living in Baltimore; title: The last New Englander; title: The nation; title: Officers and gentlemen; title: Golden age; title: Edgar Saltus; title: Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition; title: Catechism. Sixth series. Journalism in America; title: From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach!; title: The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith; title: Clarion call to poets; title: Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English; title: Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly; title: Hymn to the truth; title: The pedagogy of sex; title: Metropolis; title: Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics; title: Life under bureaucracy; title: In the rolling mills; title: Ambrose Bierce; title: The executive secretary; title: Invitation to the dance; title: Aubade; title: Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino.