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 Brontë, George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.
| ISBN: | 9781472508393 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2013 |
| Author: | Professor Barbara Hardy |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 152 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: general |