Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van DorenThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)Author: Carl Van DorenRelease Date: June 8, 2004 [EBook #12563]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELISTS ***Produced by Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELISTS1900-1920BYCARL VAN DOREN1922ToFREDA KIRCHWEYPREFACEThe American Novel, published last year, undertook to trace the progress of a literary type in the United States from itsbeginnings to the end of the nineteenth century; Contemporary American Novelists undertakes to study the type as ithas existed during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Readers of both volumes may note that in this latervolume criticism has tended to supplant history. Only in writing of dead authors can the critic feel that any considerableportion of his task is done when he has arranged them in what he thinks their proper categories and their trueperspective. In the case of living authors he has regularly to remember that he works with shifting materials, with figureswhose dimensions and importance may be changed by ...