The Appropriate Form - An Essay on the Novel

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Hardy, Barbara Nathan Hardy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472508393
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0839-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form