Literature and Insurgency (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1914 collection of essays on authors as diverse as Mark Twain, Henry James , and Edith Wharton was written in protest against what the author termed the "e;machine-made"e; and "e;soulless"e; American literature of his day, in order to, as he says in his introduction, "e;stimulate our racial sense of ultimate destiny in the world of thought and literature."e;