199

INDEX
A Farewell To Arms (Hemingway, Ernest),
112
A History of the Borgias, 110
A Lost Lady (Cather, Willa), 120
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
( Joyce, James), 4, 15, 17, 639, 736,
7980
A Story Tellers Story (Anderson, Sherwood),
45, 52
Aaron, Manley, 106
see also women in publishing
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner, William),
123, 12630, 1356, 13841, 143
academia, 12, 523, 59, 77, 87, 90, 102, 112,
119, 133, 13940, 148
see also canon; universities
Adler, Alfred, 37
Adler, Elmer, 64, 106
see also typography
Adler, Mortimer, 98
Agrarian movement, 52, 117
Aiken, Conrad, 1456, 148
Anthology of Famous English and Ameri-
can Poetry, 1458
see also Pound, Ezra
American Mercury, 128
An Anthology of American Negro Literature,
13
see also Harlem Renaissance
Anchor Books, 148
Anderson, Eleanor, 589
Anderson, Sherwood, 17, 418, 5061, 119
A Story Tellers Story, 45, 52
Horses and Men, 45, 567
Many Marriages, 45
Marching Men, 41, 45
Mid-American Chants, 41, 45
Poor White, 17, 42, 45, 478, 50, 56, 59
Te Triumph of the Egg, 45, 54, 567
Windy McPhersons Son, 41, 45
Winesburg, Ohio, 17, 418, 504, 5660,
63
see also Chicago Renaissance
Ann Veronica (Wells, H. G.), 16, 1921,
24, 268, 307, 39
Anthology of Famous English and American
Poetry, 1458
see also Aiken, Conrad
anti-Semitism, 1456
see also Jewish publishers
anti-vice movement (UK), 26
anti-vice movement (USA), 213
see also censorship; New York Society for the
Suppression of Vice; Womans Chris-
tian Temperance Union
Appleton (publisher), 92
Aristotle, 148
Arnold, Matthew, 7
As Good as Dead (Dewey, Tomas B.),
7980
Atherton, Gertrude, 33
Rezanov, 33
avant-garde, 12, 14, 48, 64, 95, 149
Babbitt (Lewis, Sinclair), 120
Balzac, Honor de, 278, 109
Droll Stories, 109
see also censorship; morality
Bantam, 119, 122
see also paperbacks
Barnhisel, Gregory, 147
Bassett, John, 5960
Battle of the Brows, 84, 92, 967
200 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
BBC, 93
Beer, Gillian, 24
Bent, William Rose, 145
see also Aiken, Conrad
Bennett, Arnold, 4, 35, 125
Old Wives Tale, 35
Bernhard, Lucian, 2, 64
Best Ghost Stories, 4, 67
see also detective fction
bestsellers, 13, 15, 39, 48, 56, 678, 72, 93,
98, 117, 127, 130, 148
bestselling titles in the Modern Library,
39, 48, 67
inclusion of bestsellers in the Modern
Library, 13, 15, 56, 77, 103, 125, 148
Modern Librarys use of the term, 678,
86, 98
Bishop, Edward, 48
Bloomsbury group, 84, 95, 97
Blue Ribbon Books, 3, 57
Boas, Franz, 37
bohemians, 2
Boni & Liveright, 9, 24, 28, 32, 52
Boni, Albert, 12, 11, 75
see also Boni & Liveright; Modern
Library
Boni, Charles, 11
book clubs, 14, 68, 70, 82, 104
see also Crime Club; Literary Guild;
Peoples Choice
Book-of-the-Month Club, 6, 1113, 104,
108, 12930
Bookman (magazine), 26
booksellers and bookstores, 2, 35, 445,
556, 65, 67, 79, 1089, 126
display racks, 656
window displays, 1089
Borzoi, 72, 104, 106, 10910
see also Knopf, Alfred
Botshon, Lisa, 14
Bourdieu, Pierre, 43, 65, 91, 115
Boyd, Ernest, 41, 57
see also Anderson, Sherwood
Boyer, Paul, 23
Brace, Donald, 85
see also Harcourt, Brace
Bramah, Ernest, 70
Te Tragedy of Brookbend Cottage, 70
see also detective fction
Brickell, Herschel, 72, 111
see also North American Review
broadbrow, 924
Brooker, Peter, 6
Brooks, Cleanth, 6, 135, 139
see also New Criticism
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1011, 42, 100
brows, 84, 923, 967
see also Battle of the Brows
Buck, Pearl, 4, 14, 50, 56, 149
Te Good Earth, 4, 56, 149
Burrow, Trigant, 43
Butler, Samuel, 1
Te Way of All Flesh, 1
Cabell, James Branch, 478, 52
Cain, James M., 81, 137
see also detective fction
Caldwell, Erskine, 48, 137
Tobacco Road, 137
Calverton, V. F., 13, 15, 39, 130
Campbell Soup, in relation to the Modern
Library, 55
Canada, Modern Library books distributed
and reviewed in, 47, 74
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1113
see also Book-of-the-Month Club
canon
anthologies as canon makers, 42, 55
canon wars, 7
defnition, 7
education system as canon maker, 523,
56, 103, 112, 135
Modern Library as canon maker, 1,
1718, 56, 103, 122
of American literature, 17, 412, 45, 47,
51, 539, 1035, 111, 120, 123, 125,
138
of modernism, 6, 35, 42, 73, 100, 149
publishers series as canon makers, 6, 18,
42, 53, 55, 58, 103, 113, 11819
role of infuential critics, 53
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 55
Cape, Jonathan, 114
capitalism, 801
Carnegie, Dale, 98
How to Win Friends and Infuence People,
98
Index 201
Cather, Willa, 17, 35, 40, 50, 53, 55, 72, 92,
1038, 11022
A Lost Lady, 120
Death Comes for the Archbishop, 17, 35,
40, 72, 10313, 11520, 122
Lewis, Edith, 55, 120
Lucy Gayheart, 120
My ntonia, 1047, 11415, 118
Obscure Destinies, 120
One of Ours, 104, 106, 120
Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 104, 118,
120
Shadows on the Rock, 104, 1079, 115,
117, 120
Te Old Beauty and Others, 120
Te Professors House, 120
Te Song of the Lark, 105, 114
Youth and the Bright Medusa, 104, 106,
114, 120
celebrity, 56, 1213, 15, 43, 47, 745
Hollywood, 15, 56, 131
see also Hopkins, Miriam; Sidney, Sylvia
censorship, 213, 26, 29, 33, 36, 1457
Modern Librarys opposition to, 223,
33, 3840, 46, 146
see also morality; sexuality
Cerf, Bennett, 23, 15, 17, 335, 39, 478,
50, 55, 64, 72, 86, 90, 101, 103, 1057,
10910, 118, 1246, 128, 1303,
1459
buys the Modern Library, 2, 47, 64, 105
buys the Sun Dial Library, 34
canon of American literature, 48, 50, 103
celebrity culture, 15
refuses to reprint poems by Ezra Pound,
17, 1458
relation with Faulkner, 1246, 128, 1303
relation with Harcourt, 101
relation with Knopf, 72, 90, 1057,
10910
transforms the Modern Library into
successful brand, 23, 33, 35, 55, 86,
90, 149
Ulysses trial, 39, 148
see also Modern Library; Random House
Czanne, 71
Chandler, Raymond, 71
see also detective fction
Chapman, John Jay, 910
Chatto & Windus, 64
Chaucer, 55
Canterbury Tales, 55
Cheney, Orion Howard, 3
Chicago Renaissance, 41, 51, 58, 601
Chinery, Mary, 104
Churchill, Suzanne, 6
Cicero, 148
Cimarron (Ferber, Edna), 14
circulating libraries, 26
Civilian Conservation Corps, 98
classic
as a marketing tool, 3, 15, 66, 73, 86
attacked by anti-vice organizations, 21,
23, 389
defnition, 1
in relation to literary canon, 7, 56
Cohen, Philip, 124, 142
Collier & Son, 9
Collins, Douglas, 55
Collins, Wilkie, 79
see also detective fction
commercialization of publishing, 789
Commins, Saxe, 59, 1456, 148
see also Random House
common readers, 17, 835, 8790, 97102,
104, 111, 129, 131, 147
see also readers
Communism/Marxism, 13, 59, 77, 81, 103,
117, 127, 130, 146
Comstock, Anthony, 212, 38
see also New York Society for the Sup-
pression of Vice
Connolly, Cyril, 96
Enemies of Promise, 96
Conrad, Joseph, 35, 50, 71
Victory, 35
copyright (in relation to publishers series),
1, 7, 19, 39
Cornell, Julien, 147
see also Laughlin, James; New Directions;
Pound, Ezra
Cowley, Malcolm, 100, 125, 1323, 135, 138
Crane, Joan, 106, 113
Creighton, Joanne V., 1345
Crime and Detection, 69
see also detective fction; Oxford Worlds
Classics
202 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Crime Club, 70
see also detective fction
Crowder, James, 3
Csicsila, Joseph, 58
Cuba, Modern Library books reviewed in, 74
Cubism, 48, 70
Cuddy-Keane, Melba, 834
DEmilio, John, 37
Damrosch, David, 61
Darwin and Darwinism, 16, 19, 235, 28,
31, 39
see also science
Daugherty, Beth Rigel, 97
Day, Clarence, 11
Life with Father, 11, 77
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather,
Willa), 17, 35, 40, 72, 10313, 11520,
122
Decameron, 21, 389, 124
see also censorship
Deeping, Warwick, 108
Sorrell and Son, 108
Delafeld, E. M., 945
Dell, Floyd, 71
Depression, 48, 501, 56, 66, 98, 107, 127
Deseret News and Deseret Evening News, 27,
111
detective fction, 1, 15, 17, 634, 6882,
92, 137
Fourteen Great Detective Stories, 4, 15, 17,
6370, 736, 80
Dettmar, Kevin, 65, 118
Dewey, John, 97
Dewey, Tomas B., 79
As Good as Dead, 7980
see also detective fction
Dial, 50, 75
Dickens, Charles, 93
Dinesen, Isak, 148
Out of Afica, 148
distinction, 2, 45, 656, 80, 133
see also Bourdieu, Pierre
Dos Passos, John, 11
Dostoyevsky, 1, 112
Te Brothers Karamazov, 112
Doubleday, 8, 14, 22, 54, 70
Douglas, George, 14
Dowson, Ernest, 4
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 70
Te Red-Headed League, 70
see also detective fction
Dreiser, Teodore, 22, 41, 458, 52, 58,
601, 119, 121
Sister Carrie, 22
see also Chicago Renaissance
Droll Stories (Balzac, Honor de), 109
drugstores, books distributed in, 3, 11
du Maurier, Daphne, 77
Rebecca, 77
Dubliners ( Joyce, James), 64, 734
Dunne, Robert, 42, 54, 60
Dutton, E. P., 1
Earle, David, 79
Egoist, 64, 90
Eliot, Charles, 910, 19, 28
see also Harvard Classics
Eliot, George, 28
Eliot, T. S., 5, 48, 75, 79, 90, 1002, 145
Ellis, Havelock, 32, 378
Enemies of Promise (Connolly, Cyril), 96
Ernst, Morris, 389
Erskine, John, 1112, 978
eugenics, 17, 19, 312
see also science
Everymans Library, 12, 7, 12, 1920, 26,
35, 39, 65, 91, 148
Evolution in Modern Tought, 1920, 245,
301, 33, 37, 39
Exiles ( Joyce, James), 74
Fadiman, Clifon, 129
Farrell, James T., 78
see also commercialization of publishing
fascism, 146
see also Nazi Germany
Fass, Paula, 98
Faulkner, William, 12, 17, 48, 50, 58, 81,
119, 12343
Absalom, Absalom!, 123, 12630, 1356,
13841, 143
Go Down, Moses, 123, 131, 135, 138,
1401, 143
Nobel Prize and Speech, 13940
Sanctuary, 17, 1237, 13043
Benbow, Horace, 125
Index 203
Te Hamlet, 131, 141
Te Sound and the Fury, 1245, 1324,
138
Te Unvanquished, 12930, 1334
Te Wild Palms, 130, 133, 1412
Featherstone, Mike, 8
Felski, Rita, 13
feminism, 267, 313, 3940, 60, 956,
120
see also gender; women
Ferber, Edna, 4, 11, 1415, 149
Cimarron, 14
Show Boat, 4, 11, 14
So Big, 14
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 15
Power, 15
First World War (USA), 1, 234, 278
Fisher, Dorothy Canfeld, 4, 1214, 34, 84,
92, 129, 149
Te Brimming Cup, 12, 34
see also Book-of-the-Month Club
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 18, 50, 64, 97, 119, 121,
132
Te Great Gatsby, 18, 50, 119
Flaubert, Gustave, 19, 27, 39
Madame Bovary, 19, 39
Flynn, Robert, 138
Ford, Ford Madox, 53, 71
Fourteen Great Detective Stories, 4, 15, 17,
6370, 736, 80
see also detective fction
Fox, Richard Wightman, 9
France, Anatole, 4, 47
Frankfurt School, 77
see also New Criticism; New York Intel-
lectuals
Fraser, Robert, 65
Freedman, Estelle, 37
Freedman, Jonathan, 8
Freeman, R. Austin, 70
Te Case of Oscar Brodski, 70
see also detective fction
Freud, Sigmund, 75, 91
Friedman, Andrea, 22, 29
Friskney, Janet, 6, 18, 24, 42
Gage, Molly, 60
Galantire, Lewis, 44
Galsworthy, John, 50
Gannett, Lewis, 146, 148
gender, 10, 23, 28, 36, 93, 120, 131
see also feminism; women
genteel tradition, 1011, 33, 46
Gershwin, George, 16
Gide, Andr, 72, 79, 106, 137
Te Counterfeiters, 72, 106
Go Down, Moses (Faulkner, William), 123,
131, 135, 138, 1401, 143
Goldsmith, Meredith, 14
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell, Margaret),
126, 12830
Good Housekeeping, 95
Gorman, Herbert, 30, 689, 75
see also Joyce, James
Gosling, Glenn, 53
Graf, Gerald, 13, 102
Graves, Robert, 126
Green Mansions (Hudson, W. H.), 18, 105
Greenslet, Ferris, 107, 11415, 117
see also Houghton Mif in
Greenwich Village, 2
Grosset & Dunlap reprints, 2
Guilbaut, Serge, 77
Guillory, John, 6, 52, 103
Guttman, Sondra, 142
Hammett, Dashiell, 4, 17, 63, 712, 789,
81, 137, 149
Red Harvest, 63
Te Dain Curse, 63
Te Maltese Falcon, 4, 63, 72, 78
see also detective fction
Hammond, Mary, 67, 66
Hansen, Harry, 39, 127
Harbrace Modern Classics, 101
Harcourt, Alfred, 85
Harcourt, Brace, 64, 81, 856, 94, 101
hardboiled, 79
see also detective fction
Hardy, Tomas, 1
Jude the Obscure, 67
Harker, Jaime, 149
Harlem Renaissance, 95, 149
see also An Anthology of American Negro
Literature
Harper & Brothers, 27, 34
204 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Harpers Magazine, 16
Hartford Courant, 63, 74
Hartley, Lodwick C., 117
see also Cather, Willa
Harvard Classics, 9, 19, 25, 28
Hayes Court School, 878
see also Woolf, Virginia
Hearn, Lafcadio, 14
Some Chinese Ghosts, 14
Hefner, Brooks, 71
Hemingway, Ernest, 4, 11, 48, 50, 55, 58, 64,
72, 112, 11921, 132, 137
A Farewell To Arms, 112
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 52, 106
Te Tree Black Pennys, 106
Herodotus, 148
Hicks, Granville, 56, 11718, 130
highbrow, 1, 34, 713, 22, 64, 71, 73,
824, 925, 99, 102, 129, 133
historical origins of division between
high and lowbrow, 7, 910
I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at
Me Now, 71
see also Van Dine, S. S.
origin of term, 4, 7
Hindus, Maurice, 127
Moscow Skies, 127
Hogarth Press, 6, 48, 83, 91, 94
see also Woolf, Virginia
Hollywood, 15, 56, 131
see also celebrity
Holmes, Sherlock, 72
see also detective fction; Doyle, Arthur
Conan
Holtby, Winifred, 95, 97
Homer, 93
Homestead, Melissa, 103
Hopkins, Miriam, 16
Horses and Men (Anderson, Sherwood), 45,
567
Houghton Mif in, 1036, 114, 118, 129
Riverside Library, 1034, 114, 120
How to Win Friends and Infuence People
(Carnegie, Dale), 98
Howe, Irving, 59
Howsam, Leslie, 6
Hudson, W. H., 1718, 105
Green Mansions, 18, 105
Huebsch, Ben, 6, 10, 418, 51, 54, 567,
634, 74
see also Viking Press
Hughes, Langston, 63
Humphry Clinker (Smollett, Tobias), 90
Huxley, Aldous, 55
Huxley, T. H., 19
Huyssen, Andreas, 4, 63, 131
I, the Jury (Spillane, Mickey), 7980
Iowa Writers Workshop, 53
James, Henry, 21
jazz music, 136
bebop, 136
Jewish publishers, 2, 1456
Joannou, Maroula, 32
John OLondons Weekly, 93
Johns, Foster, 75
see also Seldes, Gilbert
Jonas, Robert, 80, 137
Jones, Christine Kenyon, 87
Jones, Howard Mumford, 59
Joyce, James, 1, 46, 1113, 15, 17, 26, 42,
44, 50, 55, 634, 689, 735, 7881,
149
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 4,
15, 17, 639, 736, 7980
Dubliners, 64, 734
Exiles, 74
Ulysses, 39, 69, 735, 80, 148
Jude the Obscure (Hardy, Tomas), 67
Kammen, Michael, 75
Kaufer, Edward McKnight, 48, 50, 77
Kaufmann, Michael, 90
Keefer, T. Frederick, 140
see also Faulkner, William
Kenyon Review, 6, 57, 135
see also New Criticism
Kern, Jerome, 14
Keyser, Catherine, 5
Kimmel, Lu, 80
Kipling, Rudyard, 47
Klopfer, Donald, 23, 34, 47, 55, 64, 72, 90,
101, 103, 105, 113, 118, 124, 130, 149
see also Modern Library; Random House
Index 205
Knopf, Alfred, 2, 6, 63, 712, 81, 90,
10310, 11214, 11620
Borzoi, 72, 104, 106, 10910
Pocket Books series, 2, 104, 106
Knopf, Blanche, 712, 11314
Laing, Dave, 136
Lane, John, 412, 46
Langford, Gerald, 142
Lardner, Ring, 50
Laughlin, James, 139, 145, 1478
see also New Directions
Lawrence, D. H., 11, 26, 34, 42, 50, 58, 63, 71
Sons and Lovers, 34
Lears, T. J. Jackson, 9, 15, 37
Leavis, F. R., 95
Leavis, Q. D., 84, 957, 99
Leick, Karen, 13, 73
Leigh, W. Colston (Leigh Lecture Bureau),
512
leisure, 8, 23, 378, 55
Leonard Basts Library, 65
Levin, Harry, 77
Levine, Lawrence, 78, 22
Lewis, Edith, 55, 120
see also Cather, Willa
Lewis, Sinclair, 52, 55, 58, 601, 120, 131
Babbitt, 120
see also Chicago Renaissance
Lewis, Wyndham, 5, 64
Tarr, 64
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 137
Te Tyranny of Sex, 137
Life with Father (Day, Clarence), 11, 77
Linscott, Robert, 48, 105, 12930, 132
see also Houghton Mif in; Random
House
Lintner, Tim, 97
Literary Digest, 3, 45
Literary Guild, 13
see also book clubs
literary prizes, 14, 86
Liveright, Horace, 12, 6, 22, 417, 51, 75,
105
see also Boni & Liveright; Modern
Library
Lodge, David, 356, 38
Loeb Classical Library, 11
Loos, Anita, 56
Love, Glen, 57
lowbrow, 34, 611, 73, 78, 924, 123, 134,
142
see also mass culture; popular culture
Lowie, Robert H., 37
Lucy Gayheart (Cather, Willa), 120
Lustig, Alvin, 139
Lytle, Andrew, 135
see also New Criticism
Macaulay, Rose, 94
Macdonald, Dwight, 5, 7981, 137, 148
see also New York Intellectuals
McGurl, Mark, 71
Machen, Arthur, 90
MacKenzie, Jeanne, 26, 32
McKeogh, Arthur, 73
McKible, Adam, 6
McLean, Steven, 21
McLuhan, Herbert Marshall, 78
Macmillan, 26, 43
Madame Bovary (Flaubert, Gustave), 19, 39
Mademoiselle de Maupin, 39
Mademoiselle Fif (Maupassant, Guy de), 19
Madigan, Mark, 104
Malraux, Andr, 126, 1378
Mann, Tomas, 106
Te Magic Mountain, 106, 109
Mansfeld, Katherine, 13, 40, 50, 63, 106
Many Marriages (Anderson, Sherwood), 45
Marching Men (Anderson, Sherwood), 41,
45
Marius the Epicurean, 15
see also Pater, Walter
Marx, Karl, 81, 127
see also Communism/Marxism
mass culture, 46, 14, 53, 63, 77, 7981,
102, 131, 142
see also popular culture
Massey, Linton, 138, 1413
Masters, Edgar Lee, 51, 58, 601
see also Chicago Renaissance
Matisse, 71
Maugham, W. Somerset, 50
Maupassant, Guy de, 1, 4, 19, 27
Mademoiselle Fif, 19
Maurois, Andr, 92
206 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Meloney, William Brown, 73
Melville, Herman, 112
Moby Dick, 112
Mencken, H. L., 43, 48, 523, 100, 1056
Mendel, Gregor, 31
Meriwether, James B., 1413
Metress, Christopher, 78
Mid-American Chants (Anderson, Sher-
wood), 41, 45
middlebrow
fuid boundary between middle and high-
brow, 1213, 84, 92, 95, 129, 149
historical origins of the middlebrow,
89, 11
middlebrow writers and texts, 1, 14, 34, 84
origin of term, 45
used in derogatory sense, 4
see also Modern Library
Miller, Jane Eldridge, 31
Miller, Lewis, 55
see also Modern Library; Random House
Millgate, Michael, 142
Minter, David L., 142
Mitchell, Margaret, 130
Gone with the Wind, 126, 12830
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman), 112
Modern Library
academic market, 13, 35, 55, 88, 90, 105
advertising strategy, 24, 9, 15, 17
binding, 245, 57, 65, 79
blurb, 4, 48, 689, 73
colophon, 2, 57, 64
commercial enterprise, the Modern
Library criticized and seen as, 17, 78,
148
copyright and negotiations with original
publishers, 34, 45, 101, 103, 107, 124
cosmopolitanism, 3, 14
dust jackets, 256, 37, 48, 50, 65, 689,
77, 87, 91, 10910, 1256, 137, 139
see also Kaufer, Edward McKnight
end of the series, 148
endpapers, 24, 64
introductions, 17, 38, 41, 457, 57, 68,
723, 75, 834, 8691, 1001,123
5, 1325, 13840, 1423
middlebrow institution, 5, 14, 17, 83,
104
Modern Library College Editions, 148
Modern Library Paperbacks, 148
New York City, association with, 12,
14, 16
psychoanalysis, 19, 37, 75
royalties, 34, 446, 114, 116
science, 16, 201, 245, 301, 33, 3940
see also Evolution in Modern Tought
sexuality, 17, 39 see also Te Sex Problem
in Modern Society
stagnuck, 28, 39
uniform format, 4, 20, 24, 28, 30, 33, 35,
647, 10810, 139
modernism, 15
American modernism, 41, 512
celebrity of modernist writers, 13, 44
from small presses to larger-scale publish-
ing enterprises, 6, 44, 634, 68, 81,
85, 91, 123
modernist writers admiration of detec-
tive fction, 79
published alongside detective fction, 17,
634, 79
relation with marketplace, 6, 634, 67, 82
relation with middlebrow institutions,
1113
seen as dif cult movement, 56, 21,
778, 82, 102
see also canon
modernity, 2, 14, 19, 213, 289, 35, 40, 48,
55, 57, 6971, 75
Mofatt, Laurie Norton, 1356
morality, 22, 36, 39
moral absolutism, 213, 29, 39
see also censorship; sexuality
Morris, William, 72
Morrison, Arthur, 70
Te Stanway Cameo Mystery, 70
see also detective fction
Morrisson, Mark, 6
Moscow Skies (Hindus, Maurice), 127
Mrs Dalloway (Woolf, Virginia), 17, 64, 71,
829, 912, 99103
Mrs Grundy, 36
see also morality
Mulhern, Francis, 96
Munseys Magazine, 734
My ntonia (Cather, Willa), 1047,
11415, 118
Index 207
Nash, Andrew, 24, 64
National American Woman Sufrage Asso-
ciation, 278
see also womens sufrage (USA)
National Social Purity Crusade, 26
National Womans Party, 28
see also womens sufrage (USA)
National Youth Administration, 98
Nazi Germany, 77, 1456
Neavill, Gordon, 3, 107, 113
New American Library, 7980, 123, 1334
see also paperbacks; Signet
New Canadian Library, 18, 42
New Criticism, 56, 42, 75, 77, 100, 102,
117, 11920, 130, 132, 1345, 1378,
140, 142, 1479
see also New York Intellectuals
New Directions, 119, 139, 1478
see also Laughlin, James
New Republic, 43, 689, 127
New Statesman and Nation, 93, 95
New York Herald Tribune, 49, 126, 146
New York Intellectuals, 77, 100, 102, 130,
134, 137, 142
see also New Criticism
New York Society for the Suppression of
Vice, 21, 23, 389
see also anti-vice movement (USA)
New Yorker, 5, 14, 16, 129
Newberry Library, 42, 589
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 71
North American Review, 27, 72, 111
Norton Critical Editions, 59
O Pioneers! (Cather, Willa), 104, 1145,
117, 122
OBrien, Sharon, 53, 103
ODonnell, George Marion, 1345
see also Faulkner, William
obscenity, 1923, 29, 33, 389, 69, 124
see also censorship; morality; sexuality
Obscure Destinies (Cather, Willa), 120
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, John), 99
Old Wives Tale (Bennett, Arnold), 35
Olivet College and Writers Conference, 53
Omega Workshop, 48
On the Origin of Species, 19
see also Darwin and Darwinism
One of Ours (Cather, Willa), 104, 106, 120
Oprah, 143
Orczy, Baroness, 15
Orlando (Woolf, Virginia), 34, 64, 81, 856,
92, 99
Out of Afica (Dinesen, Isak), 148
Overton, Grant, 50
Oxford Worlds Classics, 7, 12, 19, 57, 59,
70, 91
ONeill, Eugene, 47
Palm Beach Post, 16, 72
paperbacks, 589, 7981, 106, 11820,
1223, 132, 134, 137, 13940, 145,
148
paperbacks as canon makers, 120, 122
Pargellis, Stanley, 59
Parker, Alison, 223
Partisan Review, 81
see also New York Intellectuals
Pater, Walter, 15
Marius the Epicurean, 15
Penguin, 589, 122, 133, 137
see also paperbacks
Peoples Choice (book club), 11
see also book clubs; Sears, Roebuck and
Co.
Peter Whif e (Van Vechten, Carl), 1056
Phoenix Library, 64
Picasso, 136
Pilkington, John, 142
Pinchot, Rosamond, 15
Poe, Edgar Allan, 70
Te Purloined Letter, 70
see also detective fction
Polk, Noel, 142
Pollentier, Caroline, 95
Pollock, Jackson, 136
Poor White (Anderson, Sherwood), 17, 42,
45, 478, 50, 56, 59
popular culture, 5, 37, 634, 75, 78, 149
see also mass culture
Pound, Ezra, 5, 17, 63, 71, 139, 1458
Power (Feuchtwanger, Lion), 15
Priestley, J. B., 84, 924, 96
Pritchett, V. S., 77
Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, 86
professionalism, 53, 90, 956
professionalization of literary studies, 90, 100
208 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Proust, Marcel, 55, 78
psychoanalysis, 19, 37, 75
see also Modern Library
publishers series, 7, 17, 19, 39, 41, 51, 58,
91, 119, 125
Pulitzer Prize, 14
pulp magazines and fction, 63, 712, 79,
81, 138
see also detective fction
purity, 22, 24, 267, 323, 40, 78
Pynson Printers, 64
see also Adler, Elmer
Radway, Janice, 5, 7, 10, 1213
Rainey, Lawrence, 6
Raleigh, Walter, 88, 94
Ramsey, D. Matthew, 124
Random House, 2, 6, 9, 35, 55, 59, 67, 74,
98, 123, 12632, 139, 1423, 1458
Ransom, John Crowe, 1001
see also New Criticism
Rapallo, 146
see also Pound, Ezra
Rascoe, Burton, 43
Rasula, Jed, 136
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 11
Te Yearling, 11
readers
common readers, 17, 835, 8790,
97102, 104, 111, 129, 131, 147
professional readers, 834, 89, 100
Rebecca (du Maurier, Daphne), 77
Red Harvest (Hammett, Dashiell), 63
Reeves, Amber, 26, 32
Rideout, Walter, 42, 45, 53, 59
Riverside Library, 1034, 114, 120
see also Houghton Mif in
Roberts, John Hawley, 89
Rockefeller, John D., 23
Rockwell, Norman, 1356
Rogers, Douglas, 51
Rogers, Ginger, 15
Ross, Harold, 16
see also New Yorker
Rossiter, Margaret, 27
Rubin, Joan Shelley, 5, 7, 1112, 97
San Francisco Chronicle, 43
Sanctuary (Faulkner, William), 17, 1237,
13043
place in the literary canon, 1346,
13940
Sand, George, 27
Sandburg, Carl, 51, 58, 601
see also Chicago Renaissance
Santayana, George, 10
Sapir, Edward, 37
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Cather, Willa),
104, 118, 120
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 137
Satterfeld, Jay, 23, 6, 55, 79, 1056
Saturday Evening Post, 130, 135
Saturday Review of Literature, 6, 12, 81, 85,
1267, 1468
Scherman, Harry, 11
see also Book-of-the-Month Club
Schwartz, Delmore, 81
Schwartz, Lawrence, 7, 132
science, 16, 1921, 25, 31
literature, in relation to, 201, 24, 30, 39
women scientists, 19, 33
Scott, Bonnie Kime, 86
Scribners Magazine, 63, 71
Scribners Sons, 63, 97
Scrutiny, 95
Seagle, William, 39
Sears, Roebuck and Co., 11
Peoples Choice (book club), 11
see also book clubs
Seldes, Gilbert, 75
Sentimental Journey (Sterne, Laurence), 91
see also Oxford Worlds Classics
series see publishers series
Sewanee Review, 78, 117, 139
see also New Criticism
sexuality, 17, 31, 37
see also censorship; morality
Shadows on the Rock (Cather, Willa), 104,
1079, 115, 117, 120
Shakespeare, 78, 11, 934
Shaw, George Bernard, 4, 47
Sheets, Kevin, 11
Show Boat (Ferber, Edna), 4, 11, 14
Sidney, Sylvia, 15
Signet, 589, 7980, 122, 133, 137, 13940
Index 209
see also New American Library; paper-
backs
Simmel, Georg, 70
Sinclair, May, 33
Te Belfy, 33
Sister Carrie (Dreiser, Teodore), 22
Sitwell, Edith, 95
Smith & Haas, 126
Smith, Harrison, 124
Smollett, Tobias, 90
Humphry Clinker, 90
Snaith, Anna, 87
So Big (Ferber, Edna), 14
Some Chinese Ghosts (Hearn, Lafcadio), 14
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence, D. H.), 34
Sorrell and Son (Deeping, Warwick), 108
Southworth, Helen, 6
Spectator, 26, 32, 36
Spiers, John, 6
Spillane, Mickey, 7980, 138
I, the Jury, 7980
see also detective fction
Spokane Daily Chronicle, 745
Stalinist Russia, 77
see also Communism/Marxism
Star Dollar series, 3, 57
Starrett, Vincent, 735
see also Fourteen Great Detective Stories
Stein, Gertrude, 1, 46, 1213, 44, 55, 71,
73, 81
Te Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 13
Tree Lives, 4, 13
Stein, Jess, 134, 148
see also Modern Library
Steinbeck, John, 50, 99
Of Mice and Men, 99
Tortilla Flat, 99
Stendhal, 77
Te Charterhouse of Parma, 77
Sterne, Laurence, 91
A Sentimental Journey, 91
see also Woolf, Virginia
Stewart, George, 148
Storm, 148
Stieglitz, Alfred, 46
Storm (Stewart, George), 148
Strachey, John St Loe, 26, 32
stream of consciousness, 689, 72
Strunsky, Simeon, 70
Strychacz, Tomas, 53
Sullivan, Melissa, 945
Sumner, John S., 389
see also New York Society for the Sup-
pression of Vice
Sun Dial Library, 3, 345
Sutclife, Denham, 101
Tarr (Lewis, Wyndham), 64
taste, 4, 79, 1314, 801, 115, 1334
Tate, Allen, 135, 139
see also New Criticism
Tackeray, William Makepeace, 112
Vanity Fair (novel), 112
Te Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Stein,
Gertrude), 13
Te Bare Hills (Winters, Yvor), 75
Te Belfy (Sinclair, May), 33
Te Brimming Cup (Fisher, Dorothy Can-
feld), 12, 34
Te Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky), 112
Te Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal), 77
Te Counterfeiters (Gide, Andr), 72, 106
Te Dain Curse (Hammett, Dashiell), 63
Te Death of the Moth (Woolf, Virginia), 5
Te Good Earth (Buck, Pearl), 4, 56, 149
Te Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott), 18,
50, 119
Te Greene Murder Case (Van Dine, S. S.),
63, 71, 75
Te Hamlet (Faulkner, William), 131, 141
Te Invisible Man (Wells, H. G.), 21
Te Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells, H. G.),
21
Te Magic Mountain (Mann, Tomas), 106,
109
Te Maltese Falcon (Hammett, Dashiell), 4,
63, 72, 78
Te Old Beauty and Others (Cather, Willa),
120
Te Professors House (Cather, Willa), 120
Te Purloined Letter (Poe, Edgar Allan),
70
Te Red-Headed League (Doyle, Arthur
Conan), 70
Te Sex Problem in Modern Society, 1920,
33, 379, 124
210 Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Te Song of the Lark (Cather, Willa), 105,
114
Te Sound and the Fury (Faulkner, William),
1245, 1324, 138
Te Stanway Cameo Mystery, 70
see also Morrison, Arthur
Te Tree Black Pennys (Hergesheimer,
Joseph), 106
Te Tragedy of Brookbend Cottage
(Bramah, Ernest), 70
Te Triumph of the Egg (Anderson, Sher-
wood), 45, 54, 567
Te Tyranny of Sex (Lewisohn, Ludwig), 137
Te Unvanquished (Faulkner, William),
12930, 1334
Te Way of All Flesh (Butler, Samuel), 1
Te Wild Palms (Faulkner, William), 130,
133, 1412
Te Woman Question, 323
Te Yearling (Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan),
11
Tree Lives (Stein, Gertrude), 4, 13
thrillers, 72, 778, 127
see also detective fction
Time and Tide, 90, 95
To the Lighthouse (Woolf, Virginia), 13, 86,
91, 99, 1012
Tobacco Road (Caldwell, Erskine), 137
Tompkins, Jane, 7
Tono-Bungay (Wells, H. G.), 16, 201, 338,
109
Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck, John), 99
Travellers Library, 114
Travis, Trysh, 5
Trilling, Lionel, 578
typography, 24, 48, 64, 91
Adler, Elmer, 64, 106
Ulysses ( Joyce, James), 39, 69, 735, 80, 148
universities, 513, 56, 68, 88, 96, 99100,
1023, 136, 139
see also academia; canon
Unwin (publisher), 26
US Congress, 23, 28
Van Dine, S. S., 634, 71, 75
Philo Vance, 71
Te Greene Murder Case, 63, 71, 75
Van Doren, Carl, 54
Van Vechten, Carl, 1056
Peter Whif e, 1056
Vanderbilt University, 52, 135
Vanderbilt, Kermit, 51
Vanity Fair (magazine), 56, 14, 74, 124
Veblen, Torstein, 8, 23
Victory (Conrad, Joseph), 35
Viking Press, 54, 569, 68, 132
Portable series, 59, 11819, 125, 132
see also Huebsch, Ben
Vintage, 120, 122, 148
Virago, 122
Vogue, 88, 90, 94
Von Schmidt, Harold, 10910
Vorticism, 48
Wallace, Edgar, 95
Webb, George, 24
Weismann, August, 31
Wells, H. G., 1, 16, 1921, 268, 3041,
73, 109
Ann Veronica, 16, 1921, 24, 268,
307, 39
Te Invisible Man, 21
Te Island of Doctor Moreau, 21
Tono-Bungay, 16, 201, 338, 109
Wescott, Glenway, 50
West, James L. W. III, 22, 97, 119
West, Rebecca, 32
Weybright, Victor, 1324
see also New American Library; Signet
Whitlatch, M. D., 60
Whitman Candy Company, 11
Whitman, Walt, 47
Wilde, Oscar, 1, 47
Wilford, Hugh, 77
Willson-Gordon, Elizabeth, 6
Wilson, Edmund, 789, 100
Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ack-
royd?, 789
see also detective fction
Wilson, Woodrow, 79
Windy McPhersons Son, 41, 45
see also Anderson, Sherwood
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson, Sherwood),
17, 418, 504, 5660, 63
Index 211
Winters, Yvor, 75
Te Bare Hills, 75
see also New Criticism
Wollstonecraf, Mary, 32
Womans Christian Temperance Union, 22,
29, 40
see also anti-vice movement (USA)
women, 33, 40, 86
see also feminism; gender; Te Woman
Question
women in publishing, 106, 125
Aaron, Manley, 106
Becker, Belle, 14
Hillyer, Dorothy, 118
Schneider, Doris, 125
see also gender
women scientists, 19, 33
see also science
womens sufrage (USA), 32
National American Woman Sufrage
Association, 278
National Womans Party (NWP), 28
Woolf, Leonard, 48, 91, 93
Woolf, Virginia, 1, 56, 1213, 17, 21, 34,
44, 634, 78, 81, 83102
Mrs Dalloway, 17, 64, 71, 829, 912,
99103
on the middlebrow, 5, 17, 834, 945
Orlando, 34, 64, 81, 856, 92, 99
seen as highbrow writer, 834, 925,
99, 102
Te Death of the Moth, 5
To the Lighthouse, 13, 86, 91, 99, 1012
see also Hogarth Press
Woollcott, Alexander, 78, 107
Wordsworth, William, 94
Works Progress Administration, 98
Wright, Willard Huntington, 71
see also Van Dine, S. S.
Yeats, W. B., 11
Yerkes, Andrew Corey, 60
Youth and the Bright Medusa
(Cather, Willa), 104, 106, 114, 120