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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
uilt for effect; they have no organic growth. The truth is, Klein's solutions for the ills-of-America condition were all sentimental. He was much nearer his natural psychology in writing The music master (26 September, 1904) than in determining the outcome of social and economic problems. In 1900 melodrama had a grip on the interest of the American middle class; it was the beau ideal of entertainment for the working people. Its violence accentuated the violences of American life, and Owen Davis and Theodore Kramer, the Thomas and Fitch of melodrama, flourished on half a dozen or more successes a year. The very names suggest their sentiment and colour: Tony, the Bootblack; Nellie, the beautiful Cloak model; Bertha, the sewing machine girl; Convict 999. But soon, through the educational agency of the public libraries, the melodrama audiences began reading books more reserved in action, more logical in plot. While their eye would accept scenes of violence, their mind began to bal
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
36 Das Cajutenbuch, 579 Das Krischkindel, 585 Das land der unbegrentzten Moglichkeiten, 579 Das land der Zukunft, 579 Das Mormonenmadchen, 581 Das Paradisische Wunderspiel, 574 Das Schandmal, 582 Das Vermadchtnis des Pedlars, 580 Daughters of men, 286 Davenport, Fanny, 271 David, Urbain, 596 David Copperfield, 268 David Harum, 95 Davidson, Thomas, 247, 247 n., 248 n. Davies, 279 Davis, C. H., 168 Davis, Jefferson, 182, 351 Davis, McFarland, 426 n. Davis, Owen, 287 Davis, Richard Harding, 94, 283, 288, 309 Davis, W. W. H., 132 Davy, Crockett. 275 Dawison, 587 Dawson, H. B., 179 Dawson, Thomas F., 157 Day, the, 601 Daye, Stephen, 533 Day is dying in the West, 500 Day of Doom, the, 391, 538 Days of forty-nine, the, 515 Dazey, C. T., 290 Dead master, the, 44 Dealtry, Wm., 438 Deane, Samuel, 430 Death of Eve, the, 63 Death of Garfield, the, 512 Death Valley in ';49, 150 De Bow, J. D. B., 438 Decision of