An edition of Prejudices
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Prejudices
by H. L. Mencken
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These essays, first published between 1919 and 1927, ushered in a new cosmopolitanism and skepticism in twentieth-century America. Taking on all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of the American worldview that he saw, Mencken launched himself at a wide variety of targets with his usual humor and richness.
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Table of Contents
[v. 1.] First, second, and third series
[v. 2.] Fourth, fifth, and sixth series.
First series. Criticism of criticism of criticism
The late Mr. Wells
Arnold Bennett
The dean
Professor Veblen
The new poetry movement
The heir of Mark Twain
Hermann Sudermann
George Ade
The Butte Bashkirtseff
Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes
The genealogy of etiquette
The American Magazine
The Ulster Polonius
The unheeded law-giver
The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage
George Jean Nathan
Portrait of an immortal soul
Jack London
Among the avatars
Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service. Second series. The National letters : Prophets and their visions ; The answering fact ; The Ashes of New England ; The ferment underground ; In the literary abattoir ; Underlying causes ; The lonesome artist ; The cultural background ; Under the campus pump ; The intolerable burden ; Epilogue
Roosevelt : an autopsy
The Sahara of the Bozart
The Divine Afflatus
Scientific examination of a popular virtue
Exeunt Omnes
The allied arts : On music-lovers ; Opera ; The music of to-morrow ; Tempo di Valse ; The Puritan as artist ; The human face ; The cerebral mime
The cult of hope
The dry millennium : The Holy War ; The lure of Babylon ; Cupid and well-water ; The triumph of idealism
Appendix on a tender theme : The nature of love ; The incomparable buzzsaw ; Women as spectacles ; Woman and the artist ; Martyrs ; The burnt child ; The supreme comedy ; A hidden cause ; Bad workmanship. Third series. On being an American
Huneker : a memory
Footnote on criticism
Das Kapital
Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum : The life of man ; The anthropomorphic delusion ; Meditation on meditation ; Man and his soul ; Coda
Star-spangled men
The poet and his art
Five men at random : Abraham Lincoln ; Paul Elmer More ; Madison Cawein ; Frank Harris ; Havelock Ellis
The nature of liberty
The novel
The forward-looker
Memorial service
Education
Types of men : The romantic ; The skeptic ; The believer ; The worker ; The physician ; The scientist ; The business man ; The king ; The average man ; The truth-seeker ; The pacifist ; The relative ; The friend
The dismal science
Matters of state : Le Contrat Social ; On minorities
Reflections on the drama
Advice to young men : To him that hath ; The venerable examined ; Duty ; Martyrs ; The disabled veteran ; Patriotism
Suite Américaine : Aspiration ; Virtue ; Eminence
Appendix: from My life as author and editor.
Fourth series. The American tradition
The husbandman
High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks
Justice under democracy
Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning
The politician
From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments
Totentanz
Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world
Essay in constructive criticism
On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor
Bugaboo
On government
Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist
Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal
The American novel
People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of Mnemosyne. Fifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War
Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters
In memoriam : W.J.B.
The hills of Zion
Beethoven
Rondo on an ancient theme
Protestantism in the Republic
From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff
The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village
Essay in pedagogy
On living in Baltimore
The last New Englander
The nation
Officers and gentlemen
Golden age
Edgar Saltus
Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition
Catechism. Sixth series. Journalism in America
From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach!
The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith
Clarion call to poets
Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English
Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly
Hymn to the truth
The pedagogy of sex
Metropolis
Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics
Life under bureaucracy
In the rolling mills
Ambrose Bierce
The executive secretary
Invitation to the dance
Aubade
Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino.
Edition Notes
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1919-1927.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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