Hardy, Barbara 1924-2016
Overview
| Works: | 186 works in 1,062 publications in 3 languages and 30,779 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History Fiction Biographies Didactic fiction Essays Literary criticism Novels Historical fiction Drama |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Honoree, Performer, Other, Singer, Creator, pre |
| Classifications: | PR4688, 823.8 |
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Most widely held works about
Barbara Hardy
- Swansea girl : a memoir by Barbara Hardy( Book )
- Interview with Barbara Hardy by Barbara Hardy( Recording )
- Barbara Hardy interviewed by Lee Christofis by Barbara Hardy( Recording )
- Portrait of Barbara Hardy by Greg Barrett( Visual )
Most widely held works by
Barbara Hardy
A reading of Jane Austen by
Barbara Hardy(
)
44 editions published between 1975 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions. Central to the word is Barbara Hardy's view of Jane Austen as the originator of the modern novel, largely through her creation of a new and flexible medium enabling her to move easily from sympathy to detachment, from one mind to many minds, from solitary scenes to social gatherings
44 editions published between 1975 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions. Central to the word is Barbara Hardy's view of Jane Austen as the originator of the modern novel, largely through her creation of a new and flexible medium enabling her to move easily from sympathy to detachment, from one mind to many minds, from solitary scenes to social gatherings
The novels of George Eliot : a study in form by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
)
98 editions published between 1959 and 1994 in English and French and held by 2,881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel' Nineteenth-century Fiction
98 editions published between 1959 and 1994 in English and French and held by 2,881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel' Nineteenth-century Fiction
The moral art of Dickens : essays by
Barbara Hardy(
)
37 editions published between 1970 and 1985 in English and held by 2,258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hardy makes a sustained exploration of the moral concern of Dickens's works, that give to his portray of society and the individual its unique quality
37 editions published between 1970 and 1985 in English and held by 2,258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hardy makes a sustained exploration of the moral concern of Dickens's works, that give to his portray of society and the individual its unique quality
Dickens : a collection of critical essays by
Martin Price(
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4 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2,188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 critical essays that analyze and evaulate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens
4 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2,188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 critical essays that analyze and evaulate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy : imagining imagination : Hardy's poetry and fiction by
Barbara Hardy(
)
24 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspectionÆs, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude. The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative
24 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspectionÆs, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude. The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative
George Eliot : a critic's biography by
Barbara Hardy(
)
17 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,854 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This brief biography offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to both her life and writing. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's relations with parents and siblings, her brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, home, foreignness, nature, gender, religion, sex, illness and death and her experiences as translator, journalist, editor and novelist. -- From publisher's description
17 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,854 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This brief biography offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to both her life and writing. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's relations with parents and siblings, her brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, home, foreignness, nature, gender, religion, sex, illness and death and her experiences as translator, journalist, editor and novelist. -- From publisher's description
Dickens and creativity by
Barbara Hardy(
)
17 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work. Charles Dickens' 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 about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subver
17 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work. Charles Dickens' 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 about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subver
Critical essays on George Eliot by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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40 editions published between 1970 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1. 'Scenes of clerical life' : the diagram and the picture / Derek and Sybil Oldfield -- 2. 'Adam Bede' / John Goode -- 3. 'The mill on the floss' / Barbara Hardy -- 4. 'Silas Marner' / Lilian Haddakin -- 5. 'Romola' as fable / George Levine -- 6. 'Felix Holt the radical' / Arnold Kettle -- 7. 'Middlemarch' : a note on George Eliot's 'Wisdom' / Isobel Armstrong -- 8. 'Daniel Deronda' : George Eliot and political change / Graham Martin -- 9. Idea and image in the novels of George Eliot / W.J. Harvey -- 10. The pastoral of intellect / John Bayley
40 editions published between 1970 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1. 'Scenes of clerical life' : the diagram and the picture / Derek and Sybil Oldfield -- 2. 'Adam Bede' / John Goode -- 3. 'The mill on the floss' / Barbara Hardy -- 4. 'Silas Marner' / Lilian Haddakin -- 5. 'Romola' as fable / George Levine -- 6. 'Felix Holt the radical' / Arnold Kettle -- 7. 'Middlemarch' : a note on George Eliot's 'Wisdom' / Isobel Armstrong -- 8. 'Daniel Deronda' : George Eliot and political change / Graham Martin -- 9. Idea and image in the novels of George Eliot / W.J. Harvey -- 10. The pastoral of intellect / John Bayley
Middlemarch; critical approaches to the novel by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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31 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This Anglo-American collection of essays on Middlemarch comprises a many-faceted study of a great and much-discussed novel. Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic who are linked by a close and concentrated interest in the novel, this group of complementary and interrelated studies is representative of its time, both in its range and in the way it looks back and ahead in methods and conclusions. It mixes formal analysis and doubts about formal analysis; studies of background and studies of foreground; and proffers examples of linguistic criticism of a relaxed and eclectic kind. Reade
31 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This Anglo-American collection of essays on Middlemarch comprises a many-faceted study of a great and much-discussed novel. Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic who are linked by a close and concentrated interest in the novel, this group of complementary and interrelated studies is representative of its time, both in its range and in the way it looks back and ahead in methods and conclusions. It mixes formal analysis and doubts about formal analysis; studies of background and studies of foreground; and proffers examples of linguistic criticism of a relaxed and eclectic kind. Reade
The appropriate form : an essay on the novel by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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44 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in English and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
44 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in English and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
Tellers and listeners : the narrative imagination by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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17 editions published between 1975 and 2014 in English and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which have been neglected by critics but recognized by narrative artists, using literary criticism in order to argue the limits and limitations of literature. Although Hardy's suggestions about narrative apply broadly to all artistic forms, in the second part of the book she approaches the subject through a detailed analysis of three authors, Dickens, Hardy and Joyce, all profound and far-reaching analysts of narrative structures and values
17 editions published between 1975 and 2014 in English and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which have been neglected by critics but recognized by narrative artists, using literary criticism in order to argue the limits and limitations of literature. Although Hardy's suggestions about narrative apply broadly to all artistic forms, in the second part of the book she approaches the subject through a detailed analysis of three authors, Dickens, Hardy and Joyce, all profound and far-reaching analysts of narrative structures and values
The exposure of luxury; radical themes in Thackeray by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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15 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The advantage of lyric : essays on feeling in poetry by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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20 editions published between 1977 and 2013 in English and held by 932 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to the lyric poetry of John Donne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and a group of poets central to the modernist canon: Hopkins, Yeats, Aden, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. Those interested in W.H. Auden will find the book of particular value, since Auden occupies a central place in it. W.H. Auden has frequently been held up as the modern example par excellence of a 'public poet' whose works betray relatively li
20 editions published between 1977 and 2013 in English and held by 932 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to the lyric poetry of John Donne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and a group of poets central to the modernist canon: Hopkins, Yeats, Aden, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. Those interested in W.H. Auden will find the book of particular value, since Auden occupies a central place in it. W.H. Auden has frequently been held up as the modern example par excellence of a 'public poet' whose works betray relatively li
Ivy Compton-Burnett by
Barbara Hardy(
)
13 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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 theoretical, a modernist unawares. This re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from her first conventionally moral love-story, Dolores, which she tried to suppress, to startling stories about landed gentry in Victorian and Edwardian England"--Page [4] of cover
13 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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 theoretical, a modernist unawares. This re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from her first conventionally moral love-story, Dolores, which she tried to suppress, to startling stories about landed gentry in Victorian and Edwardian England"--Page [4] of cover
Forms of feeling in Victorian fiction by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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25 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
25 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Particularities : readings in George Eliot by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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17 editions published between 1982 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1982 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Henry James : the later writing by
Barbara Hardy(
)
20 editions published between 1995 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A critical analysis of James later writing both the great novels and autobiography, travel and criticism
20 editions published between 1995 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A critical analysis of James later writing both the great novels and autobiography, travel and criticism
Charles Dickens : the later novels: Bleak House ... Edwin Drood by
Barbara Hardy(
Book
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25 editions published between 1968 and 1977 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
25 editions published between 1968 and 1977 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Daniel Deronda by
George Eliot(
Book
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55 editions published between 1876 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 472 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roman over een vrouw die tegen haar zin trouwt met een welgestelde man, om haar familie van een financiële ondergang te redden, en tevens de liefdesgeschiedenis van de man voor wie zij liefde heeft opgevat: een Jood, die zich wijdt aan het ideaal van herleving van het Joods bewustzijn
55 editions published between 1876 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 472 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roman over een vrouw die tegen haar zin trouwt met een welgestelde man, om haar familie van een financiële ondergang te redden, en tevens de liefdesgeschiedenis van de man voor wie zij liefde heeft opgevat: een Jood, die zich wijdt aan het ideaal van herleving van het Joods bewustzijn
Moral art of Dickens by
Barbara Hardy(
)
11 editions published between 1970 and 2000 in English and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative nov
11 editions published between 1970 and 2000 in English and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative nov
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Related Identities
- Eliot, George 1819-1880 Author Dedicatee
- Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Other Author Dedicatee
- Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Dedicatee
- Harvey, W. J. (William John) 1925-1967 Contributor
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) 1907-1973
- Price, Martin 1920-2010
- Pickrel, Paul 1917-2014
- Trilling, Lionel 1905-1975
- Bayley, John 1925-2015
- Tillotson, Kathleen 1906-2001
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Aristocracy (Social class) Austen, Jane, Compton-Burnett, I.--(Ivy), Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Critics Dickens, Charles, Didactic fiction, English Eliot, George, Emotions in literature England English fiction English language--Rhetoric English poetry Ethics Ethics in literature Fiction Fiction--Technique Great Britain Hardy, Barbara, Hardy, Thomas, Imagination Imagination in literature James, Henry, Jewish fiction Jews Jews, British Jews--Identity Literary form Literature and society Luxury in literature Lyric poetry Manners and customs Middlemarch (Eliot, George) Moral conditions in literature Narration (Rhetoric) Novelists, English Political and social views Political fiction, English Psychological fiction, English Psychology in literature Radicalism in literature Social classes Social problems in literature Technique Thackeray, William Makepeace, Themes, motives Upper class Wales--Swansea Women and literature Zionists
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Barbara Hardy, 1924-2016.
Barbara Hardy llenor o Gymry
Barbara Nathan Hardy
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Hardy, Barbara Gladys 1924-2016
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Hardy Barbara Nathan 1924-2016
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