ABSTRACT

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded

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Part I: The Novelist’s Medium and the Novelist’s Art: Problems in Criticism

chapter 1|49 pages

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chapter 2|41 pages

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Part II

chapter |3 pages

Introductory

chapter 1|22 pages

The Vocabulary of ‘Mansfield Park’

chapter 3|21 pages

The Rhetoric of ‘Hard Times’

chapter 4|26 pages

Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy

chapter 5|27 pages

Strether by the River

chapter |15 pages

Afterword to the Second Edition (1984)