BOOK LIST

General References

Besant, Sir Walter. The Art of Fiction. 1884.

Burton, Richard. Forces in Fiction. 1902.

Crawford, F. Marion. The Novel: what it is. 1903.

Cross, W. L. The Development of the English Novel. 1899.

Fiske, H. S. Provincial Types in American Fiction. 1903.

Garland, Hamlin. Crumbling Idols. 1894.

Howells, W. D. Criticism and Fiction. 1895.

Howells, W. D. Heroines of Fiction. 1901.

James, Henry. The Art of Fiction, in Partial Portraits.

James, Henry. The New Novel, in Notes on Novelists. 1914.

Lanier, Sidney. The English Novel. 1883.

Matthews, Brander. Aspects of Fiction. 1896.

Matthews, Brander. The Historical Novel and Other Essays. 1901.

Norris, Frank. The Responsibilities of the Novelist. 1901.

Pattee, F. L. American Literature since 1870, chaps. xi, xii, xvii. 1916.

Perry, Bliss. A Study of Prose Fiction, chap. xiii. 1902.

Phelps, W. L. Essays on Modern Novelists. (Howells, Mark Twain.) 1910.

Individual Works

The field is so extensive that no lists of works by the authors mentioned are included here. The novels selected for reading can be taken from the specific references in the text. All the works are in print and easily available.

Magazine Articles

The magazine articles on fiction are extremely numerous. From among those since 1900 the following are of special interest:

1900–1904. New Element in Modern Fiction. N. Boyce. Bookman, Vol. XIII, p. 149. April, 1901.

Novel and the Short Story. G. Atherton. Bookman, Vol. XVII, pp. 36–37. March, 1903.

Novel and the Theater. Nation, Vol. LXXII, pp. 210–211. March 14, 1901.

1905–1909. Confessions of a Best-Seller. Atlantic, Vol. CIV, pp. 577–585. November, 1909.

Convention of Romance. Bookman, Vol. XXVI, pp. 266–267. November, 1907.

Humor and the Heroine. Atlantic, Vol. XCV, pp. 852–854. June, 1905.

Mob Spirit in Literature. H. D. Sedgwick. Atlantic, Vol. XCVI, pp. 9–15. July, 1905.

Purpose Novel. F. T. Cooper. Bookman, Vol. XXII, pp. 131–132. October, 1905.

1910–1914. American and English Novelists. Nation, Vol. XCVIII, pp. 422–423. April 16, 1914.

American backgrounds for fiction:

Georgia. W. N. Harben. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 186–192. October, 1913.

North Carolina. T. Dixon. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 511–514. January, 1914.

Tennessee. M. T. Daviess. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 394–399. December, 1913.

North Country of New York. I. Bacheller. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 624–628. February, 1914.

Pennsylvania Dutch. H. R. Martin. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 244–247. November, 1913.

American Novel in England. G. Atherton. Bookman, Vol. XXX, pp. 633–640. February, 1910.

Recent Reflections of a Novel-Reader. Atlantic, Vol. CXII, pp. 689–701. November, 1913. Vol. CXIII, pp. 490–500. April, 1914.

Big Movements in Fiction. F. T. Cooper. Bookman, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 80–82. March, 1911.

Characters in Recent Fiction. M. Sherwood. Atlantic, Vol. CIX, pp. 672–684. May, 1912.

Fault-Findings of a Novel-Reader. Atlantic, Vol. CV, pp. 14–23. January, 1910.

Morality in Fiction and Some Recent Novels. F. T. Cooper. Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 666–672. February, 1914.

Newest Woman. K. F. Gerould. Atlantic, Vol. CIX, pp. 606–611. May, 1912.

Relation of the Novel to the Present Social Unrest. Bookman, Vol. XL, pp. 276–303. November, 1914.

Art in Fiction. E. Phillpotts. Bookman, Vol. XXXI, pp. 17–18. March, 1910.

1915. American Style in American Fiction. F. F. Kelly. Bookman, Vol. XLI, pp. 299–302. May, 1915.

Free Fiction. H. S. Canby. Atlantic, Vol. CXVI, pp. 60–68. June, 1915.

Advance of the English Novel. W. L. Phelps. Bookman, Vol. XLII, pp. 128–134, 381–388, 389–396. October-December, 1915.

Literary Merchandise. G. Atherton. New Republic, Vol. III, pp. 223–224. July 3, 1915.

1916. New York of the Novelists: a New Pilgrimage. A. B. Maurice, Bookman, Vol. XLII, pp. 20–41, 165–192, 301–315, 436–452, 569–589, 696–713. September, 1915-February, 1916.

Realism and Recent American Fiction. H. W. Boynton. Nation, Vol. CII, pp. 380–382. April 6, 1916.

Russian View of American Literature. A. Yarmolinsky. Bookman, Vol. XLIV, pp. 44–48. September, 1916.

Recent Reflections of a Novel-Reader. Atlantic, Vol. CXVII, pp. 632–642. May, 1916.

Sex in Fiction. Nation, Vol. CI, p. 716. Dec. 16, 1915.

Woman’s Mastery of the Story. G. M. Stratton. Atlantic, Vol. CXVII, pp. 668–676. May, 1916.

1917. Analysis of Fiction in the United States, 1911–1916. F. E. Woodward. Bookman, Vol. XLV, pp. 187–191. April, 1917.

Apotheosis of the Worker in Modern Fiction. L. M. Field. Bookman, Vol. XLV, pp. 89–92. March, 1917.

New Orthodoxy in Fiction. L. M. Field. Bookman, Vol. XLV, pp. 175–178. April, 1917.

Outstanding Novels of the Year. H. W. Boynton. Nation, Vol. CV, pp. 599–601. Nov. 29, 1917.

Sixteen Years of Fiction. A. B. Maurice. Bookman, Vol. XLIV, pp. 484–492. January, 1917.