Buck, P: Social Forces in Modern Literature (Classic Reprint

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Buck, P: Social Forces in Modern Literature (Classic Reprint

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Perhaps the two most striking characteristics of the literature of the past one hundred fifty years are its ten dency to pass beyond bounds of nationality and its reso lute desire to face the insistent problems of our complex social life. Never in the world's history has literature been so nearly cosmopolitan or so frankly social. For this rea son the author of this book feels that it is not amiss to attempt to trace in the chapters that follow the gradual rise of the latter tendency in the literatures of France, Germany, and England; and at the same time to show the mutual literary interdependence of these leading coun tries of Europe. It would be absurd to claim that the writers discussed were those who first clearly expressed the problems, or even that in all cases the best and most typical authors have been selected. The selection in one or two cases may seem indeed a little arbitrary. But at all events each author has, in the history of European literature, been of tremendous significance.

The writer of this volume makes no claim of originality in a field that has been gone over so often by the ablest critics. He has merely attempted to draw into a focus what else is fragmentary and scattered. He will be con tent if he succeeds in showing that many problems which seem the peculiar heritage of our age have long existed.

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