James T. Farrell

Farrell, James Thomas - 1904–79, American novelist, b. Chicago. In his fiction Farrell expressed anger against the brutal economic and social conditions that produce emotional and material poverty. His work, noted for the frankness of its language and its detailed realism, is in the tradition of naturalism. Farrell's first series of novels about life among the Irish Catholic population of Read More...

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Literary Integrity and Political Action: The Public Argument of James T. Farrell
by Kathleen Farrell. 136 pgs.

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Kathleen Farrell is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa.

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Preface

1: Introduction: Independent Voices and American Radicalism

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2: Growing Up in Chicago

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3: Farrell Comes of Age

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4: Your Word is Revolution

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5: Fighting Alone

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6: A Note on Literary Criticism: 1936

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7: Looking for Answers: Trotsky and the Moscow Trials

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8: Epilogue: Shattered Dreams and the Cold War

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Bibliography

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2.

The Silence of History
by James T. Farrell. 376 pgs.

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Chapter One

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three
3.

Sam Holman: A Novel
by James T. Farrell. 276 pgs.

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Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Part Two

Chapter One

Chapter Two
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Documents of American Realism and Naturalism (Chap. Twenty-Four "Some Observations on Naturalism, so Called, in Fiction" by James T. Farrell)
by Donald Pizer. 474 pgs.

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Preface

Editorial Note

Part One the Critical Debate, 1874-1950

The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1874-1914

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One the Novel and Its Future

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Two Modern Fiction

Three the Art of Fiction

Four a Typical Novel

Five Selections from the "Editor's Study"

Six Realism and Romance

Seven Certain Tendencies in Current Literature

Eight the New Battle of the Books

Nine Selections from the Ethics of Literary Art

Ten Realism in Literature and Art

Eleven the Progressive Realism of American Fiction

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Twelve Productive Conditions of American Literature

Thirteen the New Story-Tellers and the Doom of Realism

Fourteen Three Essays on Naturalism

Fifteen the Responsibilities of the Novelist

Sixteen True Art Speaks Plainly

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Seventeen the Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser

Eighteen the Art of Theodore Dreiser

Nineteen William Dean Howells and the Realism of the Commonplace

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Twenty Naturalism in American Fiction

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Twenty-One the Opening Struggle for Realism

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Twenty-Two "Not Men" a Natural History of American Naturalism

Twenty-Three Reality in America

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Twenty-Four Some Observations on Naturalism, So Called, in Fiction

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Part Two Modern Academic Criticism, 1951-1995

Introduction

Twenty-Five Taine in America

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Twenty-Six New Ideas in the Novel

Twenty-Seven Norris Historically Viewed

Twenty-Eight Mark Twain and the Earlier Realism

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Twenty-Nine American Realism Defined

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Thirty "Realism": Toward a Definition

Thirty-One from Document to Symbol: Zola and American Naturalism

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Thirty-Two American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser

Thirty-Three Realism

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Thirty-Four the Country of the Blue

Bibliographical Note

Bibliographical Note

Thirty-Five Preface and Casting Out the Outcast Naturalism and the Brute

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Thirty-Six Realism and "Absent Things in American Life"

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Thirty-Seven Black and White Strangers

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Thirty-Eight Expanding the Canon of American Realism

Bibliography Index

Bibliography

Index
5.

The Dance Marathons, in MELUS
by James T. Farrell. 11 pgs.
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James T. Farrell's "The Dance Marathons," in MELUS
by Ellen Skerrett. 5 pgs.
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Farrell and Dostoevsky, in MELUS
by Dennis Flynn. 13 pgs.
8.

Makers of the City (Chap. 3 "James T. Farrell: The City as Society")
by Lewis F. Fried. 244 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Jacob A. Riis: The City As Christian Fraternity

Chapter 2 Lewis Mumford: The City as Man

Chapter 3 James T. Farrell: The City As Society

Chapter 4 Paul Goodman: The City as Self

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliographical Notes

Index
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Farrell's Ethnic Neighborhood and Wright's Urban Ghetto: Two Visions of Chicago's South Side, in MELUS
by Robert Butler. 9 pgs.
10.

American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream (1956) (Chap. X "James T. Farrell: Aspects of Telling the Whole Truth")
by Charles Child Walcutt. 334 pgs.

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I New Ideas in the Novel

Zola: the Fountainhead of Naturalistic Theory and Practice

V Jack London: Blond Beasts And Supermen

Vi Frank Norris and the Search for Form

Vii The Romantic Compromise Of Winston Churchill

Viii Theodore Dreiser: the Wonder And Terror of Life

Ix Sherwood Anderson: Impressionism And the Buried Life

X James T. Farrell: Aspects of Telling The Whole Truth

Xii Some Contemporary Consequences Of Naturalism

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Twentieth-Century American Literary Naturalism: An Interpretation ("Studs Lonigan: James T. Farrell" begins on p. 17)
by Donald Pizer. 171 pgs.

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An important paradox characterizes the history of American literary naturalism. Although the movement has been attacked by literary journalists and academic critics since its origin in the 1890s, it has been one of the most persistent and vital strains in American fiction. Naturalism 'refuses to die' in America despite the deep antagonism it usually inspires. Few of our major twentieth-century novelists have escaped its 'taint, ' and it is perhaps the only modern literary form in America which has been both popular and significant.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: American Naturalism in the 1890s

The 1930s

Preface

Studs Lonigan

U. S. A.

The Grapes of Wrath

The Late 1940s and Early 1950s

Preface

The Naked and the Dead

Lie Down in Darkness

The Adventures of Augie March

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Bibliography Works About American Literary Naturalism

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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("James T. Farrell (1904-1979)" begins on p. 131)
by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. These works are briefly discussed to show how they fit within the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions.

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Acknowledgments

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Henry Brooks Adams

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Nelson Algren

James Lane Allen

Sherwood Anderson

Harriette Simpson Arnow

William Attaway

Louis Auchincloss

Mary Austin

Edward Bellamy

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (zitkala-Sa)

Thomas Boyd

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Alice Brown

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

George Washington Cable

Abraham Cahan

Erskine Caldwell

Willa Cather

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Winston Churchill

Samuel L. Clemens

Jack Conroy

Rose Terry Cooke

James Gould Cozzens

Stephen Crane

F. Marion Crawford

Edward Dahlberg

Rebecca Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

John William de Forest

Floyd Dell

Ignatius Donnelly

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

W.E.B. Dubois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edith Maud Eaton (sui Sin Far)

Edward Eggleston

Ralph Ellison

James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Leicester Ford

Harold Frederic

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Alice French (octave Thanet)

Isaac K. Friedman

Henry B. Fuller

Zona Gale

Hamlin Garland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Michael Gold

Caroline Gordon

Robert Grant

Henry Harland (sidney Luska)

Joel Chandler Harris

Bret Harte

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John Hay

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Lafcadio Hearn

Larry Heinemann

Ernest Hemingway

Robert Herrick

J. G. Holland

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

E. W. Howe

William Dean Howells

Henry James

Sarah Orne Jewett

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James Jones

Henry F. Keenan

William Kennedy

Clarence King

Edward Smith King

Grace King

Caroline Kirkland

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Joseph Kirkland

Meyer Levin

Alfred Henry Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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Jack London

Norman Mailer

John P. Marquand

Carson Mccullers

Maria Cristina Mena (maria Cristina Chambers)

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Samuel Merwin

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S. Weir Mitchell

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Toni Morrison

Willard Motley

Mary N. Murfree

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris

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Joyce Carol Oates

John O’hara

John Milton Oskison

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Thomas Nelson Page

Will Payne

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (ward)

David Graham Phillips

Ernest Poole

William Sydney Porter (o. Henry)

Opie Read

Frederic Remington

Amelie Rives

Hubert Selby, Jr

Upton Sinclair

Francis Hopkinson Smith

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

T. S. Stribling

William Styron

Booth Tarkington

Albion W. Tourgee

Susan Warner

Robert Penn Warren

Henry Kitchell Webster

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Edith Wharton

Brand Whitlock

References

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Richard Wright

Anzia Yezierska

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s ("Other Dissident Writers and Critics on the Left: James T. Farrell, F. W. Dupee, Edmund Wilson" begins on p. 82)
by Alan M. Wald. 442 pgs.

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Note on the Text and the Illustrations

Introduction Political Amnesia

Part I Origins of the Anti-Stalinist Left