The collected essays of Barbara Hardy. v.1 Narrators and novelists
1987, 1st edition. Brighton : Harvester. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409586
ISBN: 0710810040
Physical description; xii, 264 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; The nature of narrative -- Objects in novels -- Analysts of feeling : Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett -- 'Robinson Crusoe' : the child and the adult reader -- 'Les liaisons dangereuses' : transcending pornography -- Susan Ferrier's 'Marriage' and 'The inheritance' -- Charles Dickens remembered : a toast -- Mrs Gaskell : novelist of sensibility -- George Eliot : patterns of life and fiction -- The ending of 'Middlemarch' -- 'Daniel Deronda' -- 'Under the greenwood tree' : a concern with imagination -- George Meredith's 'Evan Harrington' -- George Meredith's 'Lord Ormont and his aminta' and 'The amazing marriage' -- Women in D.H. Lawrence's novels and poetry -- Form as end and means in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' -- Love and sympathy in Virginia Woolf -- A note on Mrs Ramsay's stews and stockings -- Form in Joyce Cary's novels -- The dubious consolations of Samuel Beckett -- Alan Sillitoe's 'The lost flying boat' 91983) and 'Down from the hill' (1985). Subjects; English literature History and criticism. English literature. English fiction History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric). English literature Critical studies.
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