Chapter 7

Abolitionists,123,231Agnosticism,14,17Alden, W. L., on Conrad,53"Almayer's Folly,"12,16,37,42,47,51,52,56,59American Bible Society,239American mind,25,197-8,207 et seq."Amy Foster,"36Anglo-Saxon point of view,20-3Animal behaviour, theory of,135"Anthony Comstock, Fighter,"254n,255 et seq.Anti-Saloon League,244 et seq.,249-50Art Students' League raid,269Balzac, H. de,15,73,76,113,155,202,260"Banks of the Wabash, The,"106Beauty, Dreiser on,126Benedict, Judge Chas. L., and Comstockery,267n.Bennett, Arnold,19,26,32,48,62,78,104,137,142,143Bible, declared obscene,261-2Bierce, Ambrose,146,202,216,224"Blue Sphere, The,"126Bohemian Magazine,104Bourne, Randolph,147n,158,237n.Boynton, H. W.,134,158British mind,25Brooks, Van Wyck,134Butler, Edward Malia,116 et seq.,119Calvinism,14,139,164,197 et seq.Catholicism, Dreiser's,75Censorship, theatre,241;moving picture,242,274Century Magazine,143,221"Chance,"37,48,56,60Chicago Vice Commission, report of,269"Children of the Sea,"see"Nigger of the Narcissus, The""Chopin: the Man and His Music,"166,169 et seq.Clemens, S. L.,seeTwain, MarkClifford, Hugh,52,54,59Comstock, Anthony,253 et seq.Comstock Postal Acts of 1873,241,257 et seq.Comstocks, attack on Dreiser,101-2,140 et seq.Conrad, Joseph, birth and parentage,20;first book,51;early success,53;pensioned,54;his books as bibelots,56;style,36 et seq.;materials,40 et seq.;irony,13,18;ethical agnosticism,17,29-32;on women,33-5;statement of his task,29;contrasted with other authors,30,45,48-9,88 et seq.,96Cowperwood, Frank,79,114 et seq.,135,201Criticism in America,153 et seq.,191-2Curle, Richard,60Delineator,104de Pachmann, Vladimir,171,178Dewey, John,152-3Dime novels, Dreiser as editor of,103Doubleday, Page & Co.,70,100-1,102Drama League of America,180,182Dreiser, Theodore, birth and parentage,76-7,106;early influences,68 et seq.;career in journalism,98-105;first book,70,98 et seq.;dates of books,100,105;plays,105,125-6;travel books,105,127-131;style,79 et seq.,113;mysticism,12;agnosticism,88 et seq.,147;his novels criticized,106 et seq.;academic attitude toward,131 et seq.;attacked by Comstocks,139 et seq.;contrasted with Conrad,34,88 et seq.Dresser, Paul106,130"Egoists,"179,181"End of the Tether, The,"47"Falk,"16,36,39,47,59,64Fiction, English,18,19"Financier, The,"81,86,101,105,107,114,122,138Flaubert, Gustave,73,84,136,181Follett, Wilson,11,13,17,60Garnett, Edward,52"'Genius,' The,"80-81,83,86,87,93,105,107,115,122,125,139,226,270,273,282Gerhardt, Jennie,109-10,119,137Gerhardt, Jennie'sfather,96,117German mind,25"Girl in the Coffin, The,"125Good Templars,228-30Goorall, Yanko,12Great Awakening of 1734,227Greenwich Village,124,145,224"Hand of the Potter, The,"105Hanson, Minnie,85Hardy, Thomas,16,62,69,71,72,76,260Harper & Bros.,100-2,105Harvard,163,169,177"Heart of Darkness,"35,36,41,64Herrenmoral,236Heyst,12,34,59"Hoosier Holiday, A,"76,86,88,92,105,106,125,127 et seq.Hope, Dreiser on,126Howells, W. D.,28,58,74,76,97,156,159,188,205,217,218,275,282Hueffer, Ford Madox,53,54Huneker, James, birth and parentage,164;in journalism,167,183;as music student,166-7;as a critic,159 et seq.,190-4;books on music,168-175;stories,188-90;on Conrad,59;his aims,193;style,180 et seq.Hurstwood,99,108-9Ibsen, Henrik,15,23,24,40,83,124,156,160-1,162,182,200"Iconoclasts,"169,170,179,181"Inheritors, The,"42,53,56"In the Dark,"126"Ivory, Apes and Peacocks,"59James, Henry,58,62,113,217,218,283"Jennie Gerhardt,"16,71,76-7,82,84,96,101,105-9,111-2,117,124,276Jesup, Morris K.,257 et seq.Jim, Lord,12,16,38,39,42,59Jones, Althea,80-1,85Joseffy, Rafael,167,178Kellner, Leon,197 et seq.Kultur-Novellen, Huneker's,188 et seq.Kurtz,12,16,34,38,39,59Libraries, Dreiser's books in American,143-5n."Life, Art and America,"86,88,92,105"Lord Jim,"36,47,56,60Lord's Day Alliance,242Love, Dreiser on,126MacWhirr, Capt.,12,37,42Mann Act,241,251-2,258Marlow,36,37Meeber, Carrie,40,85,99,109 et seq.,126,137"Melomaniacs,"188 et seq.Men and Religions Forward Movement,239Methodism,139,197,277"Mezzotints in Modern Music,"168"Mirror of the Sea, The,"50,56"Morals, Not Art or Literature,"253Naturalism, German,77"New Cosmopolis,"165,183 et seq.Nietzsche, F. W.,15,29,90,93,136,158,162,173,180,181,183,192,193"Nigger of the Narcissus, The,"50,52,56Norris, Frank,15,70,71,100,108,122,163,191,224"Nostromo,"12,38,42,45,46-7,48,56"Old Fogy,"170 et seq.,179,181"Old Ragpicker,"125"Outcast of the Islands, An,"37Page, Walter H.,102"Pathos of Distance, The,"164"Personal Record, A,"37,51,88Pilsner,165,184-5"Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural,"105,125Poe, Edgar Allan,73,151,152,154,180-1,189,214,221"Point of Honor, The,"42,47Prague,165,185-6Prohibition,228-9,244 et seq.Prudery, American,228Razumov,12,34,49Resignationism,14"Return, The,"42"Romance,"56Ruiz, Gaspar,12Russia, Conrad's picture of,49-50Sea, Conrad's pictures of,50-1"Secret Agent, The,"42,48,59,60"Set of Six, A.,"56"Shadow Line, The,"12,13,47Shakespeare, Wm.,14-5,61,155,121,199,204Shaw, G. B.,15,16,19,26,121-2,161,182,269"Sister Carrie,"58,70,71,73,81,84,95,97,98 et seq.,105,107,108,109,111,112-3,117,119,126,143,201Sklavenmoral,22,235Slav, qualities of,14"Some Reminiscences,"37,56.(See also"Personal Record, A.")Sons of Temperance,228Street & Smith,103-4Symons, Arthur,19,28-9,39"Tales of Unrest,"52,56"Titan, The,"60,77,82,86,101,105,106,111,114,117 et seq.,129,138,201,275Train, George Francis,261-2"Traveler at Forty, A.,"76,82,105,125,127Truth, Dreiser on,126Twain, Mark,15,17,30,90,131-2,133,143,151,202,203-4,217,222"Typhoon,"12,47,50,53"Under Western Eyes,"36,42,47,48,49,56,59"Victory,"13,33,42,48,55,56"Visionaries,"188 et seq.Webb Law,230,241,258Wells, H. G.,19,32,38,48,53,62,135,142,144,281Wille zur Macht, the Puritan237,246Witla, Eugene,122 et seq.,137,140 et seq.Young Men's Christian Association,230,238,240,256"Youth,"12,13,37,41,48,53,54,56,64Zola, Emile,15-6,63,71-2,76,78,113,124,136,202,216,260


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