Chapter Two. THE NOVEL AS POLITICAL INSTRUMENT 10

THE UNITED STATES 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War 10

Albion Tourgée: The Blunders of Reconstruction 11

Perennial Theme: Corruption 12

_Upton Sinclair: Corruption Plus Radicalism_ 12

Growing Political Consciousness: 1930 to 1954 13

_John Steinbeck: The Party Organizer_ 14

_Sinclair Lewis: Native Fascism_ 14

_John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway: Liberal Causes

Abroad_ 15

_George Weller: International Communism_ 16

_Norman Mailer: The Extreme Left_ 17

_Novels of the Cold War_ 17

GREAT BRITAIN 19

Benjamin Disraeli: Revitalized Toryism 19

Henry James: The Breakup of Victorian Tranquillity 20

Joseph Conrad: Early Cloak and Dagger 21

E. M. Forster: The Problem of Imperialism 22

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: The Future in Perspective 23

THE CONTINENT 23

Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Nihilism and Its

Rejection 23

André Malraux: Pro-Communism 24

Ignazio Silone: Disillusionment on the Left 25

Arthur Koestler: The Bolshevik on Trial 26

AFRICA 26

Alan Paton: The Race Question 27

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