On contemporary literature.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Notes: Reprint of the 1917 ed.
Reprinted from the Nation. "Revised and in several instances greatly enlarged."
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The democracy of Mark Twain.; title: The Utopian naturalism of H. G. Wells.; title: The barbaric naturalism of Theodore Dreiser.; title: The realism of Arnold Bennett.; title: The aesthetic naturalism of George Moore.; title: The skepticism of Anatole France.; title: The exoticism of John Synge.; title: The complacent Toryism of Alfred Austin.; title: The aesthetic idealism of Henry James.; title: The humanism of George Meredith.; title: Shakespeare, our contemporary.