The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History.

The recent revival of interest in Eugene O'Neill has a certain polemical, even ideological bias: the revival has occasioned very little research into or argument about O'Neill's sources and influences because it depends on the assumption of O'Neill as initiator, as the origin of American drama. A sampling of two scholarly books from the 1950s and one from the 1980s should indicate sufficiently the manner in which O'Neill has been deprived of his ancestry.

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Evolution and Economics in Robert Herrick's The Memoirs of an American Citizen

Fernández¹

2016

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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This article examines Robert Herrick's business novel, The Memoirs of an American Citizen (1905), and its engagement with competing views regarding the application of Darwinism in business practices and economic theory through the rise of its protagonist Edward Van Harrington and his corporation. The Memoirs of an American Citizen illustrates the influence of Darwinian individualism in fictional representations of business competition; however, Herrick's novel also contains a different interpretation of Darwin's ideas applied to the economic growth of Harrington's corporation that is presented as a result of economic evolution. Herrick's novel struggles to reconcile an evolutionary interpretation of social and business practices with individuals' capacity to exercise moral choices.

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The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History.

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