Main currents in American thought An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920
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).
Book II: Part I
I. The Plight of the Farmer. For general surveys of the Agrarian
movement see Solon Justus Buck, _The Granger Movement_ (In _Harvard
Historical Studies_, Vol. XIX, Cambridge, 1913); and his _The Agrarian
Crusade_ (New Haven, c. 1920); F. E. Haynes, _Third Party Movements
since the Civil War_ (Iowa City, Iowa, c. 1916); F. J. Turner, _The
Frontier in American History_ (New York, 1920).
For discussions of the currency see _Homo’s Letters on a National
Currency_ (Washington, 1817); _Currency Explosions, their Cause and
Cure_ (New York, 1858); _Our Currency: Some of Its Evils, and the
Remedies for Them_ (By a Citizen of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C.,
1861); D. H. Robertson, _Money_ (New York, c. 1922); J. Lawrence
Laughlin, _The Principles of Money_, (New York. 1911).
David Ames Wells, _Practical Economics; a Collection of Essays
Respecting Certain of the Recent Economic Experiences of the United
States_ (New York, 1885); _Robinson Crusoe’s Money_ (New ed. New York,
1896); _The Cremation Theory of Specie Resumption_ (New York, 1875);
_Contraction of Legal Tender Notes vs. Repudiation and Disloyalty_ (New
York, 1876).
Eleazar Lord, _Credit, Currency and Banking_ (New York, 1828); _A
Letter on the National Currency_ (New York, 1861); _Six Letters on the
Necessity and Practicability of the National Currency, etc._ (New York,
1862); _National Currency: A Review of the National Banking Law_ (New
York, 1863).
Peter Cooper, _Ideas for a Science of Good Government_ (New York,
1883); _The Political and Financial Opinions of Peter Cooper_ (New
York, 1877).
William Hope Harvey, _Coin’s Financial School_ (Chicago, c. 1894); and
J. A. Woodburn, _The Life of Thaddeus Stevens_ (Indianapolis, c. 1913.)
III. Hamlin Garland and the Middle Border. For studies of the Middle
Border see D. A. Dondore, _The Prairie and the Making of Middle
America: Four Centuries of Description_ (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1926);
Lucy Lockwood Hazard, _The Frontier in American Literature_ (New York,
1927).
For early realism of the Middle Border see Harold Frederick, _Seth’s
Brother’s Wife_ (London, 1898); and Joseph Kirkland, _Zury: The Meanest
Man in Spring County_ (Boston and New York, 1887).
Hamlin Garland, _Back-Trailers from the Middle Border_ (New York,
1928); _Boy Life on the Prairie_ (Revised ed., New York and London, c.
1899); _The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop: a Novel_ (New York, c.
1902); _Crumbling Idols_ (Chicago, 1894); _A Daughter of the Middle
Border_ (New York, 1921); _The Eagle’s Heart_ (New York, 1900); _Jason
Edwards, An Average Man_ (New York, 1897); _Main-Travelled Roads_ (New
York, c. 1891); _Her Mountain Lover_ (New York, 1901); _Prairie Folk_
(New and rev. ed., New York, 1899); _Rose of Dutcher’s Cooly_ (New
York, c. 1899); _A Son of the Middle Border_ (New York, 1917); _A Spoil
of Office_ (New York, 1897); _Trailmakers of the Middle Border_ (New
York, 1926).
Book II: Part II
II. The Quest of Utopia. Edward Bellamy, _The Duke of Stockbridge; a
Romance of Shay’s Rebellion_ (New York and Boston, 1901); _Equality_
(3d ed., New York, 1897); _Looking Backward, 2000-1887_ (Boston, c.
1889); see also _The Nationalist, a Monthly Magazine_ (Vols. 1-3, May,
1889, to April, 1891. Edited by H. W. Austin).
For general material see Allyn B. Forbes, _The Literary Quest for
Utopia, 1880-1900_ (_Social Forces_, Vol. VII, 1927, pp. 179-189).
Lewis Mumford, _The Story of Utopias_ (New York, c. 1922); J. O.
Hertzler, _The History of Utopian Thought_ (New York, 1923).
Index [Volume Three]
Adams, Brooks, 212, 214, 218, 227-236, 284.
Adams, Charles Francis, 212, 213-214, 215, 227.
Adams, Henry, 54, 90, 94, 96, 170, 171, 173, 203, 206, 212, 214-227,
228, 235, 242, 243, 402, 403.
Adams, John, xxviii, 177, 217, 408, 412.
Adams, Sam, 51, 216.
Addison, Joseph, vi.
Agassiz, Louis, 191, 205.
_Age of Innocence, The_, 382.
Alcott, Louisa M., 50.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 53, 54-60, 65, 86, 92, 102, 178, 237, 242,
243, 292.
_Alexander’s Bridge_, 383.
_Alice Adams_, 375.
Allen, James Lane, 238.
_American Commonwealth_, 120.
_American Political Ideas_, 210.
_American Politician, An_, 169, 171.
_American Tragedy, An_, 316.
Ames, Fisher, 160.
Ames, Oakes, 169.
Anderson, Sherwood, xv, 241, 319, 324, 325, 326, 331, 361, 370-371,
373, 377, 393, 399.
_April Hopes_, 250, 252.
Aquinas, Thomas, 221, 222, 223, 226.
_Arena_, 293, 299.
_Aristocratic Opinions of Democracy_, 159.
Armour, Philip, 15.
Arnold, Matthew, xxvii, 65, 83, 160, 209, 344, 402.
_At the Court of Boyville_, 374.
_Atlantic Monthly, The_, 52, 54, 57, 61, 238, 251, 397, 398.
Bakunin, Mikhail, 139.
Baldwin, Joseph G., 92, 390.
_Balisand_, 381.
Balzac, Honoré de, 398.
Banks, General Nathaniel Prentiss, 39.
Barbusse, Henri, 385.
Baring, Alexander, 133.
Barnum, P. T., 12, 14, 27.
Bartram, William, 191.
Bastiat, Frédéric, 105, 106, 139.
Baxter, Richard, 67.
Beard, Charles A., xiii, 406, 408, 409.
_Beautiful and Damned, The_, 386.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 12, 14, 75, 90, 202.
_Beginning of Wisdom, The_, 386.
Bellamy, Edward, xii, 246, 302-315.
_Bells, The_, 54.
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 386.
_Bent Twig, The_, 376.
Bentham, Jeremy, 156, 157.
Benton, Thomas A., 25, 71, 273.
Berger, Victor, xii.
Bergh, Henry, 12.
Berkeley, Bishop George, 109.
_Berkshire Courier, The_, 303.
Bernard, Claude, 323.
Beveridge, Albert J., 388.
_Beyond Life_, 336, 340, 344.
_Beyond the Toll-Gate_, 64.
Biddle, Nicholas, 104.
_Biglow Papers_, 56.
Björnson, Björnstjerne, 293.
Blaine, James G., 12, 38, 154, 217.
Blanc, Louis, 105, 139.
Blanche of Castile, 221.
_Blind Raftery_, 378.
_Blix_, 329.
Bloomer, Amelia, 52.
Bojer, Johan, 396.
Boker, George Henry, 52.
Bourget, Paul, 180, 399.
Bourne, Randolph, xiii, 376.
Boutwell, George Sewall, 41, 169.
Boyd, Thomas, 385.
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 181, 182, 184, 238, 282.
Brandeis, Louis, 406.
_Brass Check, The_, 353.
_Breadwinners, The_, 173, 174, 177, 178, 179.
_Briary Bush, The_, 386.
_Brimming Cup, The_, 376.
Brisbane, Albert, 125.
Bronte, Charlotte, 398.
Bronte, Emily, 398.
Brook Farm, 43, 47, 60, 147, 148, 151, 152, 201.
_Brooklyn Eagle_, 71.
Brooks, Van Wyck, 89, 376.
_Brothers_, 371.
Brown, Alice, 62.
Browning, Robert, 201.
Bryan, William Jennings, xi, 46, 166, 178, 361, 367.
Bryant, William Cullen, 41, 54, 108, 150, 277.
Bryce, James, 120.
Buchanan, James, 30.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 204, 205, 208.
“Buffalo Bill,” 16, 17.
Burgess, John W., 120, 122, 124-125, 130, 284.
Burke, Edmund, 144.
Butler, Ben, 12, 13, 14, 169, 269, 386.
_Butler’s Analogy_, 198.
_By the Open Sea_, 325.
Byrd, Col. William, 389.
Byrne, Donn, 377-378.
Cabell, James Branch, xiii, 91, 100, 335-345, 347, 355, 367, 373,
382, 405.
Cable, George Washington, xii, 238.
_Caesar’s Column_, 302.
Cairnes, John Elliott, 124.
Calhoun, John C., xxviii, 119, 120, 130, 281, 408, 409.
_Call of the Wild, The_, 352.
_Calumet K_, 186.
Cameron, Senator Simon, 12.
Canfield (Fisher), Dorothy, 376.
“Captain Kidd,” 12, 45.
_Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop, The_, 292, 300.
Carey, Henry C., 22, 23, 103, 105-111, 112, 113, 116, 269, 273, 276,
277, 279, 282.
Carey, Matthew, 105.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 337.
Carlyle, Thomas, 65, 83, 139, 337, 368.
Carnegie, Andrew, 15, 87.
Carver, Captain, 16, 17, 92.
Castelar, Emilio, 177, 178.
Cather, Willa, 63, 383-384, 393, 394.
Central Pacific Railway, 127.
_Century Magazine_, 173.
_Certain Delightful English Towns_, 252.
_Certain Rich Man, A_, 374.
Champagne, Marie de, 220.
_Changeling, The_, 378.