Publisher Description

In this original and accessible study Barbar a Hardy concentrates on the late period from 1900 to 1916, o bserving language and scene in close readings of The Ambassa dors, The Wings of the Dove, other tales, autobiography, tra vel and his criticism '

Author Biography

Barbara Hardy is professor emeritus in the University of London, Birkbeck, and honorary professor in the University of Wales, Swansea. Among her many books are The Novels of George Eliot (1959), The Appropriate Form (1964), The Moral Art of Dickens (1970), A Reading of Jane Austen (1975), Particularities: Readings in George Eliot (1982), Charles Dickens: A Writers and their Work Special (1985), Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction (1985). She is working on a book about Shakespeare's narrative and a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy.

Long Description

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales, autobiography, travel and the influential criticism.

Description for Sales People

A new study of the innovative late work of Henry James. Provides close readings of the major novels and discusses his critical influence and psychological and political themes. Written by an acknowledged scholar of the 19th and 20th century novel. An original but accessible introduction for the general and academic reader.

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A new critical analysis of James later writing both the great novels and autobiography, travel and criticism.

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