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FOUR YEARS OF NOVEL READING AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIMENT IN POPULARIZING THE STUDY OF FICTION
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A., PH.D. PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
BOSTON, U.S.A.
D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS
1901
COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY R. G. MOULTON.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Study of Fiction By Professor R. G. Moulton.
The "Backworth Classical Novel-Reading Union" By its Secretary, Mr. John U. Barrow.
Four Years' Work Done By The Union Representative Essays:
Why Is Charles Dickens A More Famous Novelist Than Charles Reade? By Miss Ellen Cumpstox
The Character Of Clara Middleton By Mr. Joseph Fairxey.
The Ideal of Asceticism By the Rev. C. G. Hall.
Character Development In "Romola" By Mr. Thomas Dawson.
Description:
Four Years of Novel Reading
By Richard G. Moulton, Ph.D.,
Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago, and author of "The Literary Study of the Bible," etc.
An account of an experiment to popularize the study of fiction. Professor Moulton's introduction treats of the "Dignity of Fiction." The "Backworth Classical Novel Reading Union" is sketched and a tabulated account of four years' work is given, followed by representative essays. The book is of interest and value to the general reader, the student and teacher.
INTRODUCTION
THE STUDY OF FICTION
FICTION may be described at the present time as just succeeding in living down a prejudice. It is now looked upon as a worldly and frivolous thing. But the time has been when