Challenges in American Culture

“Popular Culture as Cyclic Phenomenon in the
Evolution of Tennessee Williams”

by John J. Fritscher, Ph.D.

Contents:

• Introduction
• “Richard Caton Woodville and Early American Genre Painting” by Francis S. Grubar
  
• “America’s Two Poster Movements” by Michael Gordon
  
• “Joseph Stella and Hart Crane: The Brooklyn Bridge” by Irma B. Jaffe
  
• “Ideas Behind Avant-Garde Art” by John W. Rathbun
  
• “Philosophy and American Studies” by John Lachs
  
• “Out of the Clouds and into The Earth: New Directions for American Studies” by Wilcomb E. Washburn
  
• “Public Support of United States Authors” by John W. Nichol
  
• “The Artist and the Government: The P. W. A. P.” by Joel H. Bernstein
  
• “Art For Whose Sake: The Federal Music Project of the WPA” by Neal Canon
  
• “The FWP and the Popular Press” by Esther K. Birdsall
  
• “The Social Meaning of Television Censorship” by Eckard V. Toy, Jr.
  
• “American Catholic Popular Fiction” by Paul R. Messbarger
  
• “Popular Fiction (187-1900) Looks at Darwin and the Nature of God” by Elmer F. Suderman
  
• “Martians and Mythmakers: 1877-1938” by Mark R. Hillegas
  
• “The Two Whitmans and Democracy in America” by David W. Marcell
  
• “Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee: The Trouble in Camelot” by Tom H. Towers
  
• “Henry James and American Culture” by Peter Buitenhuis
  
• “Little Lord Fauntleroy as Hero” by Robert Lee White
  
• “Mrs. Johnston’s Little Colonel” by Elizabeth Steele
  
• “The Gangster and the Drama of the Thirties” by Alan Casty
  
• “The Hardy Boys Revisited: A Study in Prejudice” by Gerard O’Connor
  
• “Theodore Dreiser and Music” by Neil Leonard
  
• “The Wild and Woolly World of Harry Stephen Keeler: Scenes From the Last” by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
  
• “Popular Culture as Cyclic Phenomenon in the Evolution of Tennessee Williams” by John J. Fritscher
  
• “A Critical Dilemma: J. F. Powers and the Durability of Catholic Fiction” by David M. La Guardia
  

Challenges in American Culture, edited by Ray B. Browne, Larry N. Landrum, and William K. Bottorff, Bowling Green University Press, 1970, 278 pages; twenty-five papers originally presented at the meeting of the American Studies Association, Toledo, Ohio, October 30 to November 1, 1969