Appropriate Form: Essay on the Novel - Hardcover

Hardy, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0485110709 ISBN 13: 9780485110708

Publisher: The Athlone Press, 1964

Synopsis

In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction - story, the working-out of a moral problem, and "truthfulness", defined as "the lively representation of reality". From this standpoint she discusses and elucidates some characteristic excellences and limitations of a number of major novels and novelists, including Defoe, Charlotte Brontė, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Athlone Press
• Publication date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0485110709
• ISBN 13: 9780485110708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226