DECADENCE AND REBIRTH

Introduction: Decadence and Rebirth; The Scarlet Letter: A Puritan Attack on Puritanism; The Deerslayer: A Sentimental Journey; Billy Budd: Ritual Murder or Justifiable Sacrifice; Huckleberry Finn: The “Uncreated Consience”; The Ambassadors: A Puritan Expatriate; My Antonia: The Immigrant Dream; The Sun Also Rises: An Aftermath of War; Of Mice and Men: Ethics of the Depression; The Bear: White Bankrupt; The Catcher in the Rye: The Sacrifice of the Seventh Son; Go Tell It on the Mountain: The Black Experience; Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow: New Yorkerese; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Trapped Indian; Why Are We in Vietnam: The Lost Frontier; Epilogue