Barbara Hardy

Author of Reading of Jane Austen

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Barbara Hardy is Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London, Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy, and Honorary Member of the Modern Languages Association.

Includes the name: Barbara Nathan Hardy

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Works by Barbara Hardy

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Reading of Jane Austen (1975) 31 copies

The Novels of George Eliot (2001) 24 copies

George Eliot: A Critic's Biography (Writers Lives) (2006) 14 copies

Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction (1985) 9 copies

The Appropriate Form: An Essay on the Novel (1971) 9 copies

Particularities: Readings in George Eliot (1982) 8 copies

Moral Art of Dickens: Second Edition (1970) 8 copies

Charles Dickens: The Later Novels (1968) 7 copies

Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination (1975) 6 copies

Shakespeare's Storytellers: Dramatic Narration (1997) 6 copies

London Lovers (1996) 6 copies

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1963) 5 copies

Dorothea's Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postscripts (2011) 5 copies

Critical Essays on George Eliot (1970) 4 copies

The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray (1972) 4 copies

The advantage of lyric : essays on feeling in poetry (1977) 4 copies, 1 review

Middlemarch: Critical Approaches to the Novel (2014) 3 copies

Dickens and Creativity (2008) 3 copies

Twelfth night (Notes on English literature) (1964) 3 copies

Swansea Girl (1994) 3 copies

Henry James: The Later Writing (Writers & Their Work S.) (1996) 3 copies

Ivy Compton-Burnett (2016) 3 copies

Dylan Thomas: An Original Language (2000) 2 copies

Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction (2000) 2 copies

Jane Eyre: Blackwell's Notes (1964) 2 copies

Severn Bridge: Selected Poems (2001) 2 copies

The collected essays of Barbara Hardy (1987) 1 copy

Introduction to "Bleak House" 1 copy

Introduction to "The Rainbow" 1 copy

The Yellow Carpet 1 copy

London Rivers (2011) 1 copy

Form and feeling in modern literature : essays in honour of Barbara Hardy (2013) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Bleak House (1853) — Introduction, some editions — 15,327 copies, 272 reviews

The Rainbow (1915) — Introduction, some editions — 4,640 copies, 54 reviews

Daniel Deronda (1876) — Editor, some editions — 4,179 copies, 61 reviews

The Trumpet Major (1880) — Introduction, some editions — 1,274 copies, 21 reviews

Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War (1930) — Introduction, some editions — 259 copies, 13 reviews

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1970) — Contributor — 136 copies, 2 reviews

Women Reading Women's Writing (1987) — Contributor — 7 copies

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Gender: female
Occupations: Professor of English Literature Emeritus, University of London
literary critic
Nationality: UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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The Advantage of Lyric by Barbara Nathan Hardy

Apparently, one of the disadvantages is lack of a sense of humor. Ms. Hardy's thesis is that that lyric poetry is unique in being able to enverbalize (to use a word loosed on the world by Robert Magliola) feelings without recourse to narrative or character, while, simultaneously engaging in deep reflection on the meaning of those feelings. Poets given the treatment include Donne, Clough, Yeats, Hopkins, Auden, Thomas (Dylan) and Plath.

Oct 3, 2009