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