Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

Robert Mayhew is professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University.

• Part 1 The History of The FountainheadChapter 2 The Fountainhead from Notebook to Novel: The Composition of Ayn Rand's First Projection of the Ideal ManChapter 3 Howard Roark and Frank Lloyd WrightChapter 4 Publishing The FountainheadChapter 5 The Fountainhead ReviewsChapter 6 Adapting The Fountainhead to FilmPart 7 The Fountainhead as Literature and as PhilosophyChapter 8 The Fountainhead as a Romantic NovelChapter 9 What Might Be and Ought to Be: Aristotle's Poetics and The FountainheadChapter 10 Three Inspirations for the Ideal Man: Cyrus Paltons, Enjolras, and Cyrano de BergeracChapter 11 Understanding the "Rape" Scene in The FountainheadChapter 12 Humor in The FountainheadChapter 13 The Fountainhead and the Spirit of YouthChapter 14 The Basic Motivation of the Creators and the Masses in ,The FountainheadChapter 15 Independence in The FountainheadChapter 16 Roark's IntegrityChapter 17 A Moral DynamitingChapter 18 EpilogueChapter 19 An Interview with Leonard Peikoff

Not only is Dr. Mayhew's book the first compilation of scholarly essays on Ayn Rand's classic novel The Fountainhead, it also contains some brilliant work and insights of many of the top Ayn Rand scholars working today. I'm very excited to see that The Fountainhead-one of the greatest and most popular novels of the 20th century-is now receiving the kind of scholarly attention that it clearly deserves.