Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881-1926) was an American literary critic, educator and journalist, known for having been an advocate of the &quot;Nativist&quot; movement in American literature, which defended traditional modes of American literature against Modernism.<br />From Sherman&rsquo;s fundamental literary collection <i>Critical Woodcuts</i>, published in New York in 1926, we have drawn the study <i>Chekhov, Chekhovians, Chekhovism</i>, which today we propose to modern readers. It&rsquo;s a short essay dedicated to the Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov, who is considered one of the greatest writers of all time.