April 4--An Approach to Regionalism: The Disaffected

1. The "New" America vs. The "Old"--The "Revolt Against the Village"
2. The Nay-Sayers
   1. America as "Wrong Turn"
      1. Trashing the Past
      2. Contempt for Non-Materialistic Values
      3. The Fraud of "American Innocence"--The Reality of Evil
   2. Some Dissenters
      1. The Nineteenth Century
         1. Melville--Moby Dick as Tragic American Parable
         2. Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter--Looking for Ruins in the American Past
      2. The Expatriates
         1. Henry James--The Return to Europe
         2. The "Lost Generation" in Paris
         3. The Reactionary Modernists--T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound
3. Reconciling "Tradition" and "Progress"
   1. "High" Culture
   2. Religion
   3. Regionalism--NEXT