Table of Contents

Portraits of the artist in the novels; centres of creativty - from Gabriel to Tess; good times in "Jude the Obscure" - constructing fictions; portraits of the artist in the poems; art of conversation; poetry of place; sexual imagination - the monologues; thresholds and limits.

About the Author

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.