Beschreibung:
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 Bront , George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.
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 Bront , George Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence.