The Appropriate Form
An Essay on the Novel
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-1-4725-0839-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Bronte, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-0839-3 (9781472508393)
DOI
CBID181221
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Person
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.
Content
Introduction
I. Total Relevance: Henry James
II. The Matter and the Treatment: Henry James
III. Dogmatic Form: Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, and E. M. Forster
IV. The Structure of Imagery: George Meredith's Harry Richmond
V. Implication and Incompleteness: George Eliot's Middlemarch
VI. Truthfulness and Schematism: D. H. Lawrence
VII. Form and Freedom: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Appendix: A Note on Certain Revisions in Anna Karenina
Index
I. Total Relevance: Henry James
II. The Matter and the Treatment: Henry James
III. Dogmatic Form: Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, and E. M. Forster
IV. The Structure of Imagery: George Meredith's Harry Richmond
V. Implication and Incompleteness: George Eliot's Middlemarch
VI. Truthfulness and Schematism: D. H. Lawrence
VII. Form and Freedom: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Appendix: A Note on Certain Revisions in Anna Karenina
Index