Appropriate Form

Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

• IntroductionI. Total Relevance: Henry JamesII. The Matter and the Treatment: Henry JamesIII. Dogmatic Form: Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, and E. M. ForsterIV. The Structure of Imagery: George Meredith’s Harry RichmondV. Implication and Incompleteness: George Eliot’s MiddlemarchVI. Truthfulness and Schematism: D. H. LawrenceVII. Form and Freedom: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Appendix: A Note on Certain Revisions in Anna KareninaIndex