The English Novel
A Study in the Development of Personality (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality<br><br>The Johns Hopkins lectures delivered in Hopkins Hall during the winter of 1881, and published in 1883 under title of The English Novel, were Mr. Lanier's latest literary work excepting his Introduction to The Boy's Mabinogion, which was dictated at intervals in May and June, 1881, in the Carolina mountains. Their original plan called for twenty lectures; but Mr. Lanier was at the last persuaded to reduce the number to twelve, as President Gilman, with solicitude aroused by the writer's rapid decline, made use of the suggestion that a shorter course would better fit in with the whole schedule of University lectures. To effect this change the entire omission of many subjects and briefer treatment of others became necessary, while George Eliot's death occurring in the middle of the course further modified the plan by urging Mr. Lanier to concentrate upon her work the remaining six lectures.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.