This 1910 collection of scholarly articles discusses Thomas Hardy, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William De Morgan, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alfred Ollivant, and Richard Doddridge Blackmoore’s romance Lorna Doone. Also included are the essays “Novels as a University Study” and “The Teacher’s Attitude Towards Contemporary Literature.”
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William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) taught at Harvard for one year and Yale for forty-one years—giving a course on modern novels that was controversial, but popular. He was a director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Phelps wrote Essays on Russian Novelists (1911), Archibald Marshall: A Realistic Novelist (1919), Some Makers of American Literature (1923), and As I Like It (1923).