Chapter Three. THE NOVELIST AS POLITICAL HISTORIAN 28

GREAT BRITAIN 29 George Eliot: The Early Nineteenth Century in the Midlands 30 Benjamin Disraeli and Anthony Trollope: Whigs v. Tories 30 George Meredith: The Early Radical 31 Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Victorian Portraits 31 H. G. Wells: England in Transition 32 Howard Spring: Labour and the Course of Empire 32 Joyce Cary: The Edwardian Age and After 33

THE UNITED STATES 33 Edgar Lee Masters: Expansion and Conflict 34 Albion Tourgeé: Slavery and Emancipation 34 John W. De Forest: Post-War Corruption 35 Hamlin Garland: Enter the Farmer 36 Winston Churchill and David Phillips: Bosses and Lobbies 36 Jack London: Marxism v. Fascism, Early Phase 37 James L. Ford, Samuel H. Adams, and Upton Sinclair: Oil Men and Anarchists 38 John Dos Passos and James T. Farrell: Communist Infiltration 39 Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos: Global War and Politics 40 Post-War Directions 40

THE CONTINENT AND ELSEWHERE 42 Joseph Conrad: Colonial Politics and Revolution 42 The Soviet State: Its Roots and Growth 43 Marie-Henri Beyle [Stendhal]: Napoleonic Panorama 44 André Malraux: Comintern v. Kuomintang 44 Jean-Paul Sartre: The Shadow of Munich 45 Fascism through Italian Eyes 45 Alan Paton: The Trek of the Boers 46 Richard Kaufmann: The Third Reich 47