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Professor Barbara Hardy
In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to…
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Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of them daydreams or dreams, some of them nightmares, some of them truths…
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…
This Anglo-American collection of essays on Middlemarch comprises a many-faceted study of a great and much-discussed novel. Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic who are linked by…
George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain’s great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot’s life and work focusing on…
Charles Dickens’ experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. This book covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and…
