Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 208-215)
Contents
The American dream -- The transcendental dream -- Emerson -- Bronson Alcott: Genteel transcendentalist -- Walt Whitman's Eidolon -- The Genteel tradition: A re-interpretation -- Scarlet a minus -- Melville and the men-of-war -- The pragmatic realization -- C. S. Peirce: Pragmatic transcendentalist -- William James and Emerson -- Sinclair Lewis and the fortress of reality -- The romantic confusion: The devil in America -- The romantic tragedy of Eugene O'Neill -- Death comes for Robinson Jeffers -- Thomas Wolfe: The autobiography of an idea -- John Steinbeck: The philosophical joads -- The times of william saroyan's life -- Hemingway achieves the fifth dimension -- The good and the bad -- The logic of American literature
