On native grounds : an interpretation of modern American prose literature.
- New York : Harcourt, Brace.
- XIII, 541 p. 20 cm 20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
pt. 1. The search for reality (1890-1917): The opening struggle for realism -- American fin de siècle -- Two educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser -- Progressivism: the superman and the muckrake -- Progressivism: some insurgent scholars -- The joyous season -- pt. 2. The great liberation (1918-1929): The postwar scene -- The new realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis -- The exquisites -- Elegy and satire: Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow -- Liberals and new humanists -- Into the thirties: all the lost generation -- pt. 3. The literature of crisis (1930-1940): The revival of naturalism -- Criticism at the poles -- The rhetoric and the agony -- America! America!
A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.