Contemporary American Literature / Bibliographies and Study Outlines

(This list is not complete but merely suggestive. Titles are given only in cases where the books might not be readily identified. Some special information is also given in parenthesis.)

Africa: White, Stewart Edward

Alaska: Beach, Rex; London, Jack

Animals. See Nature.

Arizona: White, Stewart Edward

Art and Artists: Ficke, Arthur Davison (Japanese); Howells, W.D. (The Coast of Bohemia); James, Henry; Norris, Charles G. (The Amateur)

Boston: Grant, Robert; Howells, William Dean

Business and Professions: Aikman, H.G.; Cahan, Abraham (The Rise of David Levinsky); Chester, George Randolph; Dreiser, Theodore (The Financier, The Titan); Ferber, Edna; Herrick, Robert; Howells, William Dean (The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Quality of Mercy); Hurst, Fannie; Kyne, Peter B.; Lefevre, Edwin; Tarkington, Booth (The Turmoil)

California: Atherton, Gertrude; Austin, Mary; Irwin, Wallace (Japanese); Lindsay, Vachel; Markham, Edwin; Sterling, George; White, Steward Edward

Canada: Curwood, James Oliver; Roberts, Charles G.D.; Stringer, Arthur

Capital and Labor: Anderson, Sherwood (Marching Men); Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil); French, Alice (The Man of the Hour, The Lion’s Share); Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle, Jimmy Higgins, King Coal); Tobenkin, Elias (The House of Conrad); Webster, H.K. (An American Family); Wharton, Edith (The Fruit of the Tree)

Chicago: Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush); Dreiser, Theodore; Ferber, Edna (The Girls); Fuller, Henry B. (The Cliff Dwellers, With the Procession); Harris, Frank (The Bomb); Herrick, Robert; Sandburg, Carl; Webster, Henry Kitchell

Children: Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam; BjÖrkman, Edwin (The Soul of a child); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country); Conkling, Hilda; James, Henry (What Maisie Knew); Martin, George Madden; Masters, Edgar Lee (Mitch Miller); Robinson, Edwin Meade (Enter Jerry); Tarkington, Booth (Penrod)

Classical World: Aldington, Mrs. Richard (“H.D.”); Pound, Ezra

College and University Life: Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Bent Twig); Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Johnson, Owen; Williams, Jesse Lynch

Colorado: Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark); Sinclair, Upton (King Coal)

Country Life: Bachellor, Irving (Eben Holden); Baker, Ray Stannard; Howells, William Dean (The Vacation of the Kelwyns)

Cowboys: Clark, Badger; Knibbs, H.H.; White, Stewart Edward; Wister, Owen

Creoles: Cable, George W.; King, Grace

Democracy: Bynner, Witter; Lindsay, Vachel; Sandburg, Carl

Desert: Grey, Zane; Wood, C.E.S.

Education: Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country); Dell, Floyd (Were You Ever a Child?); Norris, Charles G. (Salt)

England: Burnett, Frances Hodgson; James, Henry; Wiggin, Kate Douglas

France: Hardy, Arthur Sherborne; James, Henry (The American, The Ambassadors); Tarkington, Booth (The Guest of Quesnay); Wharton, Edith

Genius: Austin, Mary (A Woman of Genius); Drieser, Theodore (The Genius); James, Henry (The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund); Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (Tante)

Gypsies: Bercovici, Konrad

Hawaii: London, Jack

Historical: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (The Perfect Tribute, The Counsel Assigned—Lincoln; The Marshal—Napoleonic period.); Atherton, Gertrude (The Conqueror—Hamilton); Brooks, C.S. (Luca Sarto—15th century France); Bacheller, Irving (A Man for the Ages—Lincoln); Cable, George W. (Old Louisiana, especially New Orleans); Churchill, Winston (Richard Carvel—18th century; The Crisis—Civil War; The Crossing—early 19th century); Glasgow, Ellen (Civil War and Reconstruction periods); Hardy, Arthur Sherborne (Passe Rose—time of Charlemagne); Harris, Frank (Great Days—time of Napoleon); Hergesheimer, Joseph (The Three Black Pennys, Java Head—early American); Johnston, Mary (Colonies—Virginia); Mackaye, Percy (Various periods); Rice, Cale Young (Various periods); Tarkington, Booth (Monsieur Beaucaire—18th century England; Cherry—18th century America); Watts, Mary S. (Nathan Burke—early Ohio); Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision—18th century Italy)

Illinois: Lindsay, Vachel; Masters, Edgar Lee

Imaginary Country: Cabell, James Branch (Poictesme); Howells, William Dean (Altruria); McCutcheon, George Barr (Graustark)

Immigrants: Antin, Mary (Russian); Cahan, Abraham (Lithuanian); Cather, Willa Sibert (Bohemian); Cournos, John; Daly, T.A. (Irish, Italian); Mackaye, Percy (The Immigrants); Tobenkin, Elias (Russian)

Indiana: Ade, George; Nicholson, Meredith; Riley, James Whitcomb; Tarkington, Booth

Indians: Austin, Mary; Eastman, Charles A.; Garland, Hamlin (The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.); Neihardt, John G.; Sarett, Lew R.; Wister, Owen (Red Men and White); Wood, C.E.S.

International Scenes: Atherton, Gertrude (The Aristocrats, American Wives and English Husbands); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Howells, William Dean; James, Henry; Wharton, Edith

Iowa: Garland, Hamlin; Quick, Herbert

Irish: Daly, T.A.; Dunne, Finley Peter

Italy and Italians: Daly, T.A.; Fuller, Henry B.; Howells, William Dean (A Foregone Conclusion); James, Henry (Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, The Aspern Papers, etc.); Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision)

Japanese: Irwin, Wallace (in California)

Jews: Brody, Alter; Cahan, Abraham; Glass, Montague; Pinski, David; Ridge, Lola

Journalism: Cournos, John (The Wall); Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)

Kentucky: Allen, James Lane; Cobb, Irvin S.; Fox, John; Martin, George Madden; Rice, Alice Hegan

Marriage: Aikman, H.G. (Zell); Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle); Deland, Margaretta Wade; Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush); Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup); Herrick, Robert (Together); Norris, Charles G. (Brass); Poole, Ernest (His Second Wife); Webster, Henry Kitchell (Thoroughbred); Widdemer, Margaret (I’ve Married Marjorie); Williams, Jesse Lynch (And So They Were Married)

Middle West: Anderson, Sherwood; Cather, Willa Sibert; French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”); Gale, Zona; Garland, Hamlin; Lewis, Sinclair; Lindsay, Vachel; Masters, Edgar Lee; Neihardt, John G.; Piper, Edwin Ford; Quick, Herbert; Sandburg, Carl

Montana: Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil—Butte)

Nature: Beebe, William; Burroughs, John; Eaton, Walter Prichard; London, Jack; Mills, Enos A.; Roberts, Charles G.D.; Seton, Ernest Thompson; Sharp, Dallas Lore; White, Stewart Edward

Nebraska: Cather, Willa Sibert; Piper, Edwin Ford

Negroes: Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Cable, George W.; Cohen, Octavus Roy (contemporary, city); Du Bois, William B.; Howells, William Dean (An Imperative Duty); King, Grace; Lindsay, Vachel (The Congo); O’Neill, Eugene (The Emperor Jones); Page, Thomas Nelson; Sheldon, Edward (The Nigger); Torrence, Ridgely (Plays for a Negro Theatre)

New England: Brown, Alice; Connolly, James Brendan (Gloucester fishermen); Freeman, Mary Wilkins; Frost, Robert; Hergesheimer, Joseph (Java Head); Howells, William Dean; Lee, Jennette; Lincoln, Joseph (Cape Cod); Nathan, Robert; O’Neill, Eugene (Beyond the Horizon); Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Wharton, Edith (Ethan Frome, Summer); Wiggin, Kate Douglas

New Mexico: Corbin, Alice

New Orleans: Cable, George W.; King, Grace

New York: Bercovici, Konrad (The Dust of New York); Ford, Sewell; Glass, Montague (Jewish); Guiterman, Arthur (Old New York); Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance); Hurst, Fannie; James, Henry (Washington Square); Poole, Ernest (The Harbor); Strunsky, Simeon; Wharton, Edith (The Age of Innocence)

Nonsense: Bangs, John Kendrick; Burgess, Gelett; Leacock, Stephen; Marquis, Don

Ohio: Anderson, Sherwood; Howells, William Dean (The Leatherwood God, The New Leaf Mills); Watts, Mary S.

Orient: BenÉt, William Rose (The Great White Wall); Comfort, Will Levington; Guiterman, Arthur (Chips of Jade); Lindsay, Vachel (The Chinese Nightingale); Lowell, Amy (Fir-Flower Tablets); Pound, Ezra; Tietjens, Eunice

Paris: Hardy, Arthur Sherborne; Wharton, Edith (Madame de Treymes)

Pennsylvania: Deland, Margaretta (Alleghany); Hergesheimer, Joseph; Martin, Helen R. (Dutch); Singmaster, Elsie (Dutch)

Philosophy (popular): Baker, Ray Stannard (“David Grayson”); Brooks, Charles S.; Crothers, Samuel McChord; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, and Cleghorn, Sarah (Fellow-Captains); Morley, Christopher; Van Dyke, Henry

Pioneers: Cather, Willa Sibert (O Pioneers, My Antonia); Neihardt, John G.

Politics: Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North); Churchill, Winston (Coniston, Mr. Crewe’s Career); Tarkington, Booth (The Gentleman from Indiana); Whitlock, Brand; Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

Prairie Life: Garland, Hamlin; Piper, Edwin Ford; Stringer, Arthur

Primitive Life: London, Jack; White, Stewart Edward

Psycho-analysis: Aiken, Conrad; Aikman, H.G. (Zell); Anderson, Sherwood (The Triumph of the Egg); BjÖrkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child); Dell, Floyd (Moon-Calf)

Religion: Churchill, Winston (The Inside of the Cup); Deland, Margaretta (John Ward, Preacher); Kennedy, Charles Rann (The Servant in the House, The Army with Banners); Van Dyke, Henry; Wattles, Willard

San Francisco: Atherton, Gertrude

Sea and Sailors: Connolly, James B. (Gloucester fishermen); Lincoln, Joseph C. (Cape Cod); O’Neill, Eugene; Williams, Ben Ames

Social Service and Settlement Work: Bercovici, Konrad; Harrison, Henry Sydnor (V.V.’s Eyes); Rice, Alice Hegan; Wiggin, Kate Douglas

Socialism: Eastman, Max; Giovannitti, Arturo; Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, Annie Kilburn, The Eye of the Needle, A Traveler from Altruria); Kennedy, Charles Rann; Markham, Edwin; Oppenheim, James; Poole, Ernest; Sinclair, Upton; Traubel, Horace; Whitlock, Brand (The Turn of the Balance)

Society: Adams, Henry (Democracy, Esther); Atherton, Gertrude; Grant, Robert; James, Henry; Wharton, Edith

South America: Scott, Evelyn (Brazil)

South Seas: O’Brien, Frederick; London, Jack

Spiritualism, Supernatural: Belasco, David (The Return of Peter Grimm); Brown, Alice (The Wind between the Worlds); Freeman, Mary Wilkins (The Wind in the Rosebush); Garland, Hamlin (The Tyranny of the Dark, The Shadow World, Victor Ollnee’s Discipline)

Stage: Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark); Hurst, Fannie; Sheldon, Edward B. (Romance); Watts, Mary S. (The Board-man Family); Webster, Henry Kitchell (The Real Adventure, The Painted Scene)

Vermont: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup, Hillsboro People); Nathan, Robert (Autumn)

Village and Provincial Town Life: Anderson, Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio); Brown, Alice (New England); Deland, Margaretta (Pennsylvania); Freeman, Mary Wilkins (New England); Gale, Zona (Wisconsin); Lewis, Sinclair (Main Street—Minnesota); Lindsay, Vachel (The Golden Book of Springfield); Masters, Edgar Lee (Illinois); Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

Virginia: Cabell, James Branch; Glasgow, Ellen; Johnston, Mary; Page, Thomas Nelson

Wales: Marks, Jeannette

War: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman; Atherton, Gertrude (The White Morning); Broun, Heywood; Comfort, Will Levington (Red Fleece); Deland, Margaretta Wade (Small Things); Dos Passos, John; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield; Kilmer, Joyce; Poole, Ernest (Blind); Seeger, Alan; Wharton, Edith; Whitlock, Brand; Wilde, Percival (The Unseen Host)

Washington, D.C.: Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North); Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Through One Administration)

Wisconsin: Gale, Zona; Garland, Hamlin

Women (Psychology of): Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle); Cleghorn, Sarah; Deland, Margaretta (The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Rising Tide); Dreiser, Theodore (Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt); Ferber, Edna (The Girls); Fisher, Dorothy Canfield; Hergesheimer, Joseph (Linda Condon); Johnson, Owen (The Salamander, Virtuous Wives); Norris, Kathleen; Tarkington, Booth (Alice Adams, Gentle Julia); Watts, Mary S. (The Rise of Jennie Cushing)

Youth (Psychology of): Aikman, H.G. (Zell); Allen, James Lane (A Summer in Arcady, The Kentucky Warbler); Anderson, Sherwood; BjÖrkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child); Davies, Mary Carolyn; Dell, Floyd; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Hecht, Ben; James, Henry (The Awkward Age); Nathan, Robert (Peter Kindred); Norris, Charles G. (Salt); Tarkington, Booth (Seventeen, Clarence); Widdemer, Margaret (The Boardwalk); Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

Transcriber’sNote

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

Page	Error
xii	“Loveman, Amy,” should end with a .
xii	“Littell, Philip,” should end with a .
xii	“Underwood, John Curtis,” should end with .
xiii	“Aiken, Conrad,” should end with .
xv	“Miscellany of American Poetry,” should end with .
xv	“Stork, Charles Wharton,” should end with .
xviii	“Morley, Christopher,” should end with .
xix	“Mackay, Constance D’Arcy,” should end with .
xix	“Mayorga, Margaret Gardner,” should end with .
xix	“Shay, Frank,” should end with .
xix	“Stratton, Clarence,” should end with .
38	“By the Chrismas Fire” should read “Christmas”
80	“31 (’14)” should be “31 (’10)”
82	“my ‘story,’ he said,” missing ” after story,’
103	“Jeannette(Augustus)” missing space before (
146	“portrait)” should read “(portrait)”
147	“Lit. Digest, 58 (18’)” should read “Lit. Digest, 58 (’18)”
169	“Brown, Robert Carleton. Others, 1916” should have . at end
171	“Kennedy Charles Rann” should have , after Kennedy
172	“Gerould, Katherine Fullerton” should read Katharine
178	“Child, Richard Washburn” does not have an entry in the main text of the book
178	“Gerould, Katherine Fullerton” should read Katharine
178	“Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
179	“Jeanette” should read Jeannette
180	“Glass, Montague, (England)” has an extra , after Montague
182	“Bachellor” should read Bacheller
182	“Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
183	“Drieser, Theodore” should read Dreiser
183	“Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
183	“(The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.)” has an extra . before the )
186	“Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne

The following words were inconsistently capitalized:

One-Act / One-act
Present-Day / Present-day
Who’s Who In America / Who’s Who in America

The following word was inconsistently spelled:

BjÖrkman / Bjorkman

Other inconsistencies:

ff. used in page references is sometimes closed up with the page numbers and sometimes spaced.

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