Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoreti
Not for publication: 'promises to present the distilled understanding and insight of Professor Hardy's lifetime engagement with George Eliot...strengths lie in the sensitive close reading that disting
Not for publication: 'promises to present the distilled understanding and insight of Professor Hardy's lifetime engagement with George Eliot...strengths lie in the sensitive close reading that disting
Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas abou
Hardy (emerita, literature, Birkbeck College, U. of London) argues that awareness of his creativity was at the core of Dickens's self-awareness and therefore essential to the creation of his character
In this new critical study, Barbara Hardy suggests that Jane Austen, while making no claims to innovation, transformed the art of fiction and created the modern novel.
Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoreti
Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as one of the "great individualists of modern art."
Most innovative of Victorian and Edwardian novelists, James transformed fiction by anti-realist modes of symbolic action, puzzles, gaps, and narrative uncertainties, devices emphasized in his own and
