Man and Literature

An Enquiry into the Assumptions as to the Nature of Man which Underlie much of Modern Writing Rather than an Attempt to Measure Modern Literature By a Christian yard-Stick. Mr. Nicholson Classifies these Views as Liberal Man, Natural Man and Imperfect Man and, Under these Headings, Discusses the Outstanding Figures in Modern Literature. Contents Include - LIBERAL MAN - Liberal Man - The End of the Nineteenth Century - Shaw - Galsworthy and the Realist Drama - Arnold Bennett - Wells - NATURAL MEN - Natural Men - Lawrence - Henri De Montherlant, Aldous and others - Hemingway - William Faulkner - IMPERFECT MAN - Imperfect Man - James Foyce and T. F. Powys - The Satirists - Franz Kafka - After Kafka - Modern Poetry -