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Romain Rolland, Goethe and Beethoven

Albert Schweitzer, Lectures on Goethe

Benedetto Croce, Goethe

Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield; Hard Times

John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens

Hesketh Pearson, Charles Dickens: His Character and Comedy

George Gissing, Charles Dickens

*G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

T. A. Jackson, Charles Dickens: The Progress of a Radical

Wilhelm Dibelius, Dickens

Humphrey House, The Dickens World

George Orwell, Dickens, Dali, and Others

Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow

Herman Melville

White-Jacket; Mardi; Redburn

Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, ed. Raymond Weaver

*Herman Melville, ed. Willard Thorp

E. M. Metcalf (ed.), Melville's Journal of a Visit, etc.

Raymond Weaver, Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic

W. E. Sedgwick, Herman Melville, The Tragedy of Mind

Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael

Howard Vincent, The Trying-Out of Moby-Dick

F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

War and Peace, tr. Aylmer Maude

Childhood; Youth; The Cossacks; Sebastopol

The Shorter Novels of Tolstoy, ed. William Phillips

*Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy

E. J. Simmons, Leo Tolstoy

Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Tolstoy

D. S. Merezhkovsky, Tolstoy as Man and Artist

Melchior de Vogue, The Russian Novel

Eugene Tarle, Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812

General

W. P. Ker, Epic and Romance

Walter Scott, Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

John Dunlop, The History of Fiction

F. W. Chandler, Romances of Roguery

Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

Henry James, The Art of the Novel

J. W. Krutch, Five Masters

*E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

Ralph Fox, The Novel and the People

V. S. Pritchett, The Living Novel

HUMANITIES 2, The Novel: Hour Exam, March 21, 1950

Discuss three of the following speeches. Identify the speaker in each case, and indicate why the idea expressed is characteristic of him. What part does it play in the novel, and does it represent the author's point of view?

1. "This (disaster) is for the best; for, if there is a volcano at Lisbon, it cannot be anywhere else; for it is impossible that things should not be where they are; for all is well."

2. "Both the Greek and Roman Poets represent(ed) their Heroes not such as they really were but such as they should be, to remain Examples of Virtue to ensuing Ages. In the same manner, Amadis having been the Polar Star and Sun of valorous and amourous Knights, 'tis him we ought to set before our Eyes as our great Exemplar, all of us that fight under the Banner of Love and Chivalry."

3. "St. Peter is very well at Rome; which is as much as to say, let every one stick to the Calling he was born to. . . Every Sheep to her Mate. Let not the Cobler go beyond his Last."

4. "Can there be two religions? We have, I think, the religion of every one else; we adore God from evening until morning. . . We are all priests; the King and all the heads of families solemnly sing praises every morning, accompanied by five or six thousand musicians."