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• The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Stefanie Markovits (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Character Development in Schools and Beyond (second edition expanded; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1992), ed. by Kevin Ryan and Thomas Lickoma (multiple formats at Google)
• Character, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
• The Elements of Character (1854), by Mary G. Ware (Gutenberg text)
• The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms (Holyoke, MA: E. Towne Co., 1916), by William Walker Atkinson (Gutenberg text)
• The Mastery of Destiny, by James Allen (HTML ay in1woord.nl)
• Seventh Anniversary Address Before the Platonian Literary Society of M'Kendree College, by Jonathan Baldwin Turner (page images at MOA)
• Studies in Character Building: A Book for Parents (Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Pub. Co., c1905), by E. E. Kellogg
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Road (Washington: National Home Library Foundation, 1936), by Arthur E. Morgan, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character-Building Thought Power, by Ralph Waldo Trine (HTML at psitek.net)
• Creating Character, by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Royal Manhood (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1899), by James I. Vance
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Albert Parlette (Gutenberg text)
• What All the World's A-Seeking: or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power and Happiness (revised edition; New York: T. Crowell and Co., c1899), by Ralph Waldo Trine
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What All the World's A-Seeking: or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power and Happiness (revised edition; New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d.), by Ralph Waldo Trine (Gutenberg text)
• Characteristics, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
• Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine Prinzipielle Untersuchung (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: W. Braumuller, 1903), by Otto Weininger
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images in Austria
• Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine Prinzipielle Untersuchung (11th edition, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: W. Braumuller, 1909), by Otto Weininger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ourselves (second edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1905), by Charlotte M. Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pol i Kharakter: Teoreticheskoe Izsli︠e︡dovanīe (Sex and Character translated into Russian; St. Petersburg: Kn-vo Posiev, 1909), by Otto Weininger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex and Character, by Otto Weininger (PDF and partial HTML with commentary at theabsolute.net)
• Sex and Character (authorized translation from the sixth German edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by Otto Weininger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mind-Training: A Practical System for Developing Self-Confidence, Memory, Mental Concentration and Character (Chicago: Human Science School, c1905), by Victor Gabriel Rocine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bringing in a New Era in Character Education (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, c2002), ed. by William Damon (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)
• Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things, by Rita Stein, Roberta Richin, Richard Baynon, Francine Baynon, and Marc Stein (HTML with commentary at ascd.org)

• The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1925), by Bruce Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Silences of Jesus; and St. Paul's Hymn to Love (London: C. H. Kelly, 1912), by Percy C. Ainsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus, Man of Joy, by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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