The Appropriate Form
An Essay on the Novel| By: | Barbara Hardy |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472508393 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472506238 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.