Fighting Words: Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism

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abortion: 101–4, 121–122, 124–126, 166n5. See also American Tragedy; Shvarts, Aliza Alexander I (Yugoslavian king), 127 American Civil Liberties Union, 100 American Mercury, 21, 25 American Tragedy, An (Dreiser): and abortion, 100–101, 103, 111–115, 120–24; and birth control, 109; importance of art in, 122–24, 125; journalistic technique of, 156; and mimetic desire, 118–120; source material for, 115–118; and storytelling, 112–13, 114, 123–24, 126; suppression and censorship of, 99–101, 109– 10, 161n9 anarchism, 130, 167n2. See also Avrich, Paul Animal Farm (Orwell), 10 Arnold, Matthew, 6 Atlantic (magazine), 45, 62, 137 Avrich, Paul, 134, 167n2, 168n4 Badiou, Alain, 129, 167n1 Baldwin, James, 139–42, 149 Balzac, Honore, 48 Beard, George M., 162n3 Beardsley, Aubrey, 40 Baraka, Amiri, 141 Beauvoir, Simone, 45 Becker, George, 161n10 Bell, Daniel, 52, 53 Bell, Michael Davitt, 63, 163n8 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 25, 28, 160n6 Berkman, Alexander, 130, 168n4 Bierce, Ambrose, 8 birth control movement, 104–6. See also Sanger, Margaret Black Metropolis (Cayton and Drake), 144, 148, 149 Bloom, Harold, 35, 160n15 Bohemian (magazine), 62 Bontemps, Arna, 45 Boston Evening Transcript (newspaper), 89 Brinkley, Alan, 140 Brown, Bill, 111 Brown, Grace “Billy,” 116, 118, 126 Brown, Richard Maxwell, 76 Buell, Lawrence, 67, 70–71, 72, 74 Bunyan, John, 23 Bush, George H. W., 101 Calvert, John, 148 Campbell, Donna, 27, 159n4 Camus, Albert, 45, 135 Carby, Hazel, 168n18 Index 188 Index censorship. See American Tragedy; Comstock, Anthony; Dreiser, Theodore; Norris, Frank; Wright, Richard Century (magazine), 62 Chicago American Literary and Art Review (journal), 36 Chicago School of Sociology, 144 climate change, 66, 79 Clinton, Hillary, 101 Cohn, David L., 137 Communism. See Dreiser, Theodore; Wright, Richard; Robinson, Cedric J. Comstock, Anthony, 21, 26, 101–4, 109, 110, 122, 166n6 Comstock Postal Act, 21, 102–3, 105, 110, 113, 116, 120, 122 Cowley, Malcolm, 5, 25, 47–49, 50, 161n6, 161n10, 162n14 Crane, Stephen, 27, 29, 48, 56, 60, 162n14 Crewe, Jonathan, 25, 30, 31 Crimes of Art and Terror (Lentricchia and McAuliffe), 168n8 Crossman, Richard, 45, 168n12 Crow, Walter, 78 Czolgosz, Leon, 130 Darrow, Clarence, 200, 167n12 Darwin, Charles, 7, 27, 47, 48 Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (Girard), 119–120 Declaration of Independence, 144 Delineator (magazine), 62 Denning, Michael, 140, 168n17 Derrida, Jacques, 1, 2, 150, 160n15, 169n23 Dewey, John, 144 Douglas, Ann, 27, 159n4 Dreiser, Theodore: and birth control, 30, 100, 103, 104–7, 109, 161n9; and censorship, 99–101, 110, 122– 24; charitable efforts of, 159n3; and Christianity, 51, 108, 160n11; communism of, 10, 41–42, 55, 160n11; and determinism, 117–118, 135; and eugenics, 9, 40, 107–9; and infanticide , 107–9, 110; as journalist, 60– 62, 156; liberal critics indulgence of, 50–52, 57; and Margaret Sanger, 104, 105; and Mencken, 3, 7, 11, 15, 16–18, 22, 23, 25, 30–31, 42, 47; and naturalism, 3, 7, 11, 15, 24, 29, 48, 49, 51, 52, 60, 63, 64; and nature, 107–10, 122, 162n2; as polemicist, 7, 28, 29, 30–31, 34–35; 39–43, 46; and the “sacred,” 110, 121, 167nn10– 11; sexual inclinations of, 166n8; and Spanish Civil War, 2, 42; and Stuart P. Sherman, 63; upbringing of, 48, 64; and WWII, 41–42 Dreiser, Theodore, works of: America is Worth Saving, 7, 10, 40, 41–42; An American Tragedy, 2, 7, 99–126; A Book About Myself, 60; The Bulwark, 49, 51; Dawn, 166n2; Dreiser Looks at Russia, 7; The “Genius,” 16, 23; “I Find the Real American Tragedy,” 115–118; Jennie Gerhardt, 24, 40; “The Right to Kill,” 40, 107–109, 110, 115, 122, 167n9; Sister Carrie, 5, 16, 24, 39, 40, 47, 53, 60, 161n9; Tragic America, 7, 40–41; “True Art Speaks Plainly,” 167n11; “A Word Concerning Birth Control,” 105–7, 115 DuBois, W. E. B., 46, 67, 138 Duchamp, Marcel, 125 Dudley, John, 8, 10, 27, 59, 161n4, 162n15 Dworkin, Ronald, 101, 121–22 ecocriticism, 68–69, 70–71, 73–74, 83, 85, 86, 88, 92–94, 97, 98, 163nn6– 7; and resistance to “theory,” 93–94, 163n9 Edwards, Jonathan, 21 Edwards, Robert, 116 Index 189 Ellis, Havelock, 105 Ellison, Ralph, 64, 137 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 20, 163n7 environmental literary criticism. See ecocriticism environmentalism. See climate change; ecocriticism; Octopus Ev’ry Month (magazine), 39, 62 Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 156 Fabre, Michael, 18 Fanon, Frantz, 151, 152 Ferdinand, Franz (Archduke of Austria ), 127 Fiedler, Leslie, 149–50 Fire Next...