Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy

ISBN-13: 9781907975370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 226 str.

Isobel Armstrong; William Baker

Opis

Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. Her work, as the essays in the volume bear witness, encompasses 19th and 20th century British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. In addition to an introduction outlining and assessing Hardy's career and writing, there is an extensive bibliography of her work.
Comparatively short, concise essays, stories and poems by twenty distinguished hands express the eclectic nature of Barbara Hardy's work and themselves form a many-faceted critical/creative gathering. Form and Feeling moves away from the traditional festschrift to create an innovative critical genre that reflects the variety and nature of its subject's work.
In addition to Barbara Hardy's own writing, authors and subjects treated include Anglo-Welsh poetry, nineteenth century fiction, Margaret Atwood, Wilkie Collins, Ivy Compton Burnet, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, G. M. Hopkins, Wyndham Lewis, George Meredith, Alice Meynell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Shakespeare, and W. B. Yeats, amongst others.

Spis treści

Part I: The Work of Barbara Hardy 1. Introduction 2. A New Voice in Criticism: The Early Work of Barbara Hardy Part II: The Art of Narrative 3. The Shakespearean Nights of Robert Louis Stevenson 4. Wilkie Collins’s Basil: A Story of Modern Life: An Author’s Search for an Appropriate form 5. The absent Dog: Great Expectations 6. Moments of Suspension in Dickens 7. Hamlet’s Revenge; or, Mr Q Strikes Back 8. The Mill on the Floss and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism 9. Scenes of Reading Romola Part III: The Art of Poetry 10. Aesthetics, Visuality and Feelings in the Natural Theology of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Alice Meynell 11. The Wanderings of Yeats and Oisin 12. Poetry and Magic; or, Thinking through Form and Feeling; or, the Uses of Unpleasure Part IV: Writing Women and Children 13. Misogyny on Trial: Shakespeare and Honour Killing 14. Jeanie Deans and Narrative Method in The Heart of Mid-Lothian 15. Abjection and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: When is a Human Not a Human? 16. The Image of Childhood in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner 17. Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination of Carol Shields Part V: Fictions 18. Eleanor Mear’s Tea Party 19. The Tailor’s Dummy 20. A Short Biography 21. A Primary and Secondary Bibliography 1948–2012

O autorze

Isobel Armstrong