The Project Gutenberg eBook of Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines, by John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert

(This list is not complete but merely suggestive. Titles are given only in cases where the books might not be readily identified. Some special information is also given in parenthesis.)

Africa

Alaska: Beach, Rex; London, Jack

Animals. See Nature.

Arizona: White, Stewart Edward

Art and Artists: Ficke, Arthur Davison (Japanese); Howells, W. D. (The Coast of Bohemia); James, Henry; Norris, Charles G. (The Amateur)

Boston: Grant, Robert; Howells, William Dean

Business and Professions: Aikman, H. G.; Cahan, Abraham (The Rise of David Levinsky); Chester, George Randolph; Dreiser, Theodore (The Financier, The Titan); Ferber, Edna; Herrick, Robert; Howells, William Dean (The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Quality of Mercy); Hurst, Fannie; Kyne, Peter B.; Lefevre, Edwin; Tarkington, Booth (The Turmoil)

California: Atherton, Gertrude; Austin, Mary; Irwin, Wallace (Japanese); Lindsay, Vachel; Markham, Edwin; Sterling, George; White, Steward Edward

Canada: Curwood, James Oliver; Roberts, Charles G. D.; Stringer, Arthur

Capital and Labor: Anderson, Sherwood (Marching Men); Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil); French, Alice (The Man of the Hour, The Lion’s Share); Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle, Jimmy Higgins, King Coal); Tobenkin, Elias (The House of Conrad); Webster, H. K. (An American Family); Wharton, Edith (The Fruit of the Tree)

Chicago: Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush); Dreiser, Theodore; Ferber, Edna (The Girls); Fuller, Henry B. (The Cliff Dwellers, With the Procession); Harris, Frank (The Bomb); Herrick, Robert; Sandburg, Carl; Webster, Henry Kitchell

Children: Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam; Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a child); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country); Conkling, Hilda; James, Henry (What Maisie Knew); Martin, George Madden; Masters, Edgar Lee (Mitch Miller); Robinson, Edwin Meade (Enter Jerry); Tarkington, Booth (Penrod)

Classical World: Aldington, Mrs. Richard (“H. D.”); Pound, Ezra

College and University Life: Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Bent Twig); Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Johnson, Owen; Williams, Jesse Lynch

Colorado: Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark); Sinclair, Upton (King Coal)

Country Life: Bachellor, Irving (Eben Holden); Baker, Ray Stannard; Howells, William Dean (The Vacation of the Kelwyns)

Cowboys: Clark, Badger; Knibbs, H. H.; White, Stewart Edward; Wister, Owen

Creoles: Cable, George W.; King, Grace

Democracy: Bynner, Witter; Lindsay, Vachel; Sandburg, Carl

Desert: Grey, Zane; Wood, C. E. S.

Education: Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country); Dell, Floyd (Were You Ever a Child?); Norris, Charles G. (Salt)

England: Burnett, Frances Hodgson; James, Henry; Wiggin, Kate Douglas

France: Hardy, Arthur Sherborne; James, Henry (The American, The Ambassadors); Tarkington, Booth (The Guest of Quesnay); Wharton, Edith

Genius: Austin, Mary (A Woman of Genius); Drieser, Theodore (The Genius); James, Henry (The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund); Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (Tante)

Gypsies: Bercovici, Konrad

Hawaii: London, Jack

Historical: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (The Perfect Tribute, The Counsel Assigned—Lincoln; The Marshal—Napoleonic period.); Atherton, Gertrude (The Conqueror—Hamilton); Brooks, C. S. (Luca Sarto—15th century France); Bacheller, Irving (A Man for the Ages—Lincoln); Cable, George W. (Old Louisiana, especially New Orleans); Churchill, Winston (Richard Carvel—18th century; The Crisis—Civil War; The Crossing—early 19th century); Glasgow, Ellen (Civil War and Reconstruction periods); Hardy, Arthur Sherborne (Passe Rose—time of Charlemagne); Harris, Frank (Great Days—time of Napoleon); Hergesheimer, Joseph (The Three Black Pennys, Java Head—early American); Johnston, Mary (Colonies—Virginia); Mackaye, Percy (Various periods); Rice, Cale Young (Various periods); Tarkington, Booth (Monsieur Beaucaire—18th century England; Cherry—18th century America); Watts, Mary S. (Nathan Burke—early Ohio); Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision—18th century Italy)

Illinois: Lindsay, Vachel; Masters, Edgar Lee

Imaginary Country: Cabell, James Branch (Poictesme); Howells, William Dean (Altruria); McCutcheon, George Barr (Graustark)

Immigrants: Antin, Mary (Russian); Cahan, Abraham (Lithuanian); Cather, Willa Sibert (Bohemian); Cournos, John; Daly, T. A. (Irish, Italian); Mackaye, Percy (The Immigrants); Tobenkin, Elias (Russian)

Indiana: Ade, George; Nicholson, Meredith; Riley, James Whitcomb; Tarkington, Booth

Indians: Austin, Mary; Eastman, Charles A.; Garland, Hamlin (The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.); Neihardt, John G.; Sarett, Lew R.; Wister, Owen (Red Men and White); Wood, C. E. S.

International Scenes: Atherton, Gertrude (The Aristocrats, American Wives and English Husbands); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Howells, William Dean; James, Henry; Wharton, Edith

Iowa: Garland, Hamlin; Quick, Herbert

Irish: Daly, T. A.; Dunne, Finley Peter

Italy and Italians: Daly, T. A.; Fuller, Henry B.; Howells, William Dean (A Foregone Conclusion); James, Henry (Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, The Aspern Papers, etc.); Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision)

Japanese: Irwin, Wallace (in California)

Jews: Brody, Alter; Cahan, Abraham; Glass, Montague; Pinski, David; Ridge, Lola

Journalism: Cournos, John (The Wall); Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)

Kentucky: Allen, James Lane; Cobb, Irvin S.; Fox, John; Martin, George Madden; Rice, Alice Hegan

Marriage: Aikman, H. G. (Zell); Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle); Deland, Margaretta Wade; Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush); Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup); Herrick, Robert (Together); Norris, Charles G. (Brass); Poole, Ernest (His Second Wife); Webster, Henry Kitchell (Thoroughbred); Widdemer, Margaret (I’ve Married Marjorie); Williams, Jesse Lynch (And So They Were Married)

Middle West: Anderson, Sherwood; Cather, Willa Sibert; French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”); Gale, Zona; Garland, Hamlin; Lewis, Sinclair; Lindsay, Vachel; Masters, Edgar Lee; Neihardt, John G.; Piper, Edwin Ford; Quick, Herbert; Sandburg, Carl

Montana: Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil—Butte)

Nature: Beebe, William; Burroughs, John; Eaton, Walter Prichard; London, Jack; Mills, Enos A.; Roberts, Charles G. D.; Seton, Ernest Thompson; Sharp, Dallas Lore; White, Stewart Edward

Nebraska: Cather, Willa Sibert; Piper, Edwin Ford

Negroes: Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Cable, George W.; Cohen, Octavus Roy (contemporary, city); Du Bois, William B.; Howells, William Dean (An Imperative Duty); King, Grace; Lindsay, Vachel (The Congo); O’Neill, Eugene (The Emperor Jones); Page, Thomas Nelson; Sheldon, Edward (The Nigger); Torrence, Ridgely (Plays for a Negro Theatre)

New England: Brown, Alice; Connolly, James Brendan (Gloucester fishermen); Freeman, Mary Wilkins; Frost, Robert; Hergesheimer, Joseph (Java Head); Howells, William Dean; Lee, Jennette; Lincoln, Joseph (Cape Cod); Nathan, Robert; O’Neill, Eugene (Beyond the Horizon); Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Wharton, Edith (Ethan Frome, Summer); Wiggin, Kate Douglas

New Mexico: Corbin, Alice

New Orleans: Cable, George W.; King, Grace

New York: Bercovici, Konrad (The Dust of New York); Ford, Sewell; Glass, Montague (Jewish); Guiterman, Arthur (Old New York); Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance); Hurst, Fannie; James, Henry (Washington Square); Poole, Ernest (The Harbor); Strunsky, Simeon; Wharton, Edith (The Age of Innocence)

Nonsense: Bangs, John Kendrick; Burgess, Gelett; Leacock, Stephen; Marquis, Don

Ohio: Anderson, Sherwood; Howells, William Dean (The Leatherwood God, The New Leaf Mills); Watts, Mary S.

Orient: Benét, William Rose (The Great White Wall); Comfort, Will Levington; Guiterman, Arthur (Chips of Jade); Lindsay, Vachel (The Chinese Nightingale); Lowell, Amy (Fir-Flower Tablets); Pound, Ezra; Tietjens, Eunice