This character lends his name to an esotericist who unleashes a horde of demons that cause a nuclear war in James Blish’s dark fantasy novel Black Easter. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Methodist preacher in upstate New York who questions his faith after encounters with the Assyriologist Dr. Ledsmar and the redheaded Catholic aesthete Celia Madden.
ANSWER: Theron Ware [accept either underlined part; accept The Damnation of Theron Ware]
[10e] In this novel, Vida Sherwin criticizes The Damnation of Theron Ware by saying “I can’t see any use in this high-art stuff that doesn’t encourage us day laborers to plod on.” Carol Kennicott attempts to reform Gopher Prairie in this novel.
ANSWER: Main Street (by Sinclair Lewis)
[10m] Theron’s vivacious but impecunious wife has this first name. A bedridden diarist with this first name’s companionship with Katharine Peabody Loring inspired the former’s brother to write The Bostonians.
ANSWER: Alice [accept Alice Ware or Alice James]
<TH, American Literature>