Fame and fiction
Subtitle: an enquiry into certain popularities
By: by E.A. Bennett
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1901
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: History and criticism; English fiction
Notes: "Except the first and the final chapters, the substance of this book was printed at intervals during the last three years in the columns of The Academy ... "
Table of contents: title: Introductory: The "average reader" and the recipe for popularity. - Miss Braddon. - Mr. J.M. Barrie. - Charlotte M. Yonge. - Miss Rhoda Broughton. - Madame Sarah Grand. - "The master Christian." - Miss E.T. Fowler. - "Red pottage." - A note on the revolution in journalism. - The fiction of popular magazines. - Mr. Silas Hocking. - The craze for historical fiction in America. - Mr. James Lane Allen. - "David Harum." - Mr. George Gissing. - Ivan Turgenev. - Mr. George Moore.