Foreword: Self and Society

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Foreword: Self and Society VII
4. Contents XVII
5. The Example of Cervantes 1
6. The Unpoetic Compromise: On the Relation between Private Vision and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction 26
7. Marcel Proust and the Imagination of Duchesses 51
8. A Portrait of the Artist as Friend 60
9. James Joyce and an Irish Tradition 78
10. Sinclair Lewis and the Method of Half-Truths 117
11. Supervising Committee, the English Institute, 1955 145
12. Contributors to the Guarantee Fund, 7955 146
13. The Program 147
14. Registrants, 7955 150