A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 327 and how to write about it, from Sarah Orne Jewett. Glasgow belonged to a loose group of fellow wome ...

328 Making It New: 1900–1945 setting, in Ethan Frome (1911). But in both The Reef (1912) and the moral satirical novel The Custo ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 329 realize that, as she puts it, “under the dullness” of New York life “there are things so fine and s ...

330 Making It New: 1900–1945 and then returns to his hotel. “It’s more real to me here than if I went up,” he suddenly hears him ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 331 town,” on the one hand, and “novels of the country” on the other. Among the books in the first mode ...

332 Making It New: 1900–1945 finished with all that.” “The storm and the hag-ridden dreams of the night were over,” the reader i ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 333 Glasgow’s evolution from “radical” to “conservative”: the change in tendency, from progressivism to ...

334 Making It New: 1900–1945 the Lark (1915), which is partly set in the ancient cliff-dwellings of Arizona. Then, in 1916, on a ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 335 days are the first to flee (“Optima dies ... prima fugit”) and their creator’s proud claim that he ...

336 Making It New: 1900–1945 first to bring “the Muse” into the country of her formative years. She was and is, however, among t ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 337 Dreiser was born the ninth child of German-speaking parents in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was profoun ...

338 Making It New: 1900–1945 world, a “fallen woman” who refuses to believe that it is “all blind chance,” that “there must be s ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 339 of the world, the Cowperwoods and the Carries. Despite their obvious differences, both Cowperwood a ...

340 Making It New: 1900–1945 (1882–1958), for writing a study of the English language in the United States titled The American L ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 341 Virus is the germ which ... infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces,” he tells ...

342 Making It New: 1900–1945 expresses vaguely liberal opinions for a while, he even takes up with a fast set of local bohemians ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 343 Caldwell were indebted to him because he introduced new methods of storytelling, in terms of style ...

344 Making It New: 1900–1945 “that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and trie ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 345 storytellers who followed him, was a fundamental breakaway from plot into mood and meaning. Individ ...

346 Making It New: 1900–1945 way to be new.” Robinson’s first and last love was what he called “the music of English verse.” As ...