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Definitions: First Series

by Henry Seidel Canby

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  1. 1Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Defining the Indefinable — I
  4. 4Free Fiction
  5. 5A Certain Condescension Toward Fiction
  6. 6II — On the American Tradition
  7. 7Thanks to the Artists
  8. 8The Family Magazine
  9. 9III — The New Generation
  10. 10Puritans All
  11. 11The Older Generation
  12. 12A Literature of Protest
  13. 13Barbarians à la Mode
  14. 14IV — The Reviewing of Books
  15. 15The Race of Reviewers
  16. 16The Sins of Reviewing
  17. 17Mrs. Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence”
  18. 18Mr. Hergesheimer’s “Cytherea”
  19. 19V — Philistines and Dilettante
  20. 20Eye, Ear, and Mind
  21. 21Out With the Dilettante
  22. 22Flat Prose
  23. 23VI — Men and Their Books
  24. 24The Novelist of Pity
  25. 25After Scene
  26. 26Henry James
  27. 27VII — Conclusion

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