From These Roots : The Ideas That Have Made Modern Literature

Describes and interprets the movements behind the various nomenclatures, to give the history of the development of literary tendencies since the literature of the middle of the 18th century. Contents Preface Chapter One. What Is Criticism? Chapter Two. Modern Literature Begins: The Ideas of Lessing and Herder Chapter Three. The English Contribution: Coleridge and Wordsworth Chapter Four. De Staël Brings the New Ideas to France Chapter Five. The Ideas on the March: Sainte-Beuve and Taine Chapter Six. The Coming of the Realists Chapter Seven. The Two Consciences Chapter Eight. The Russian Contribution to Realism Chapter Nine. The Decline Chapter Ten. The Outside Literatures in English: The Irish and the American Chapter Eleven. The Revolt Chapter Twelve. Where We Are Index