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The Narrative Imagination
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 th...
Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction
The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the ima...
A Critic's Biography
'a genuinely interesting contribution to George Eliot scholarship by one of the leading postwar critics of Victorian fiction. The conception is bold a...
An Essay on the Novel
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An Original Language
Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as...
Essays on Feeling in Poetry
In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings p...
A Study in Form
The Later Writing
A critical analysis of James later writing both the great novels and autobiography, travel and criticism....
Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works i...
A Memoir
Encompassing experiences from the 1920s to the 1940s, this powerful childhood memoir focuses on one woman's upbringing in industrial South Wales. With...
The first fully detailed and critically contextualised study of the novels of Ivy Compton-BurnettIvy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist...
Radical Themes in Thackeray
Dramatic Narration
The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the pla...
The Writers and their Work series contains three essays on Dickens, an account of biographical and critical studies by K.J. Fielding and appreciations...
A Novel
"Hardy's light touch and her effortless rendering of characters who naturally weave literature into their romances make her novel a bright, Intelligen...
Essays
Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical j...
This analysis of themes and conventions in the major Victorian novel pays particular attention to the novelistโs self-conscious use of art as moral ...
Malapropic Wordplay Technique in Shakespeare's Henriad
The W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture Delivered at the University College of Swansea on February 6, 1973
Florence, professor of English literature at the University of London, is separated from her husband Charlie, her childhood sweetheart. She falls in l...
This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work. Charles Dicke...
The Contemporary Challenge
Understanding Life from an Animal's Point of View
Numerous tomes have been written about Jack LondonOCOs The Call of the Wild. This is the first one to talk about the dog BuckOCOs perspective in the n...