The True Story of the Novel

Literature & Fiction

Doody, Margaret Anne

British & Irish

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Set in Athens, 332 BC, the city is under the unhappy rule of Alexander the Great. In the midst of the un rest, Boutades, an eminent citizen is murdered. Suspicion fa lls upon young Philemon and his cousin Stephanos is elected to defend him. '

Aristotle Detective

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

This book studies Richardson's originality in combining disparate elements from diverse sources - collections of letters, devout literature, plays, and early novels. The author is most interested in Richardson's fresh use of imagery and its effect, and suggests sources for the images in emblem books, poems, religious literature, and in art. The three novels are studied in relation to each other, and atmosphere, imagery, and themes compared; special attention is paid to the major novels, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison. Miss Doody is concerned with Richardson's characters, particularly his vivacious and independent heroines, and deals in an interesting manner with his presentation of woman as heroic in the only English tragic novel of the period.

A natural passion: A study of the novels of Samuel Richardson

Oxford University Press

Hester Lynch Piozzi Mrs. Thrale

Clifford, James Lowry

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle. Replete with suspense, historical detail, and humor, and complemented by an ever-growing cast of characters and vivid descriptions of the ancient world, Doody’s mysteries are as much lively takes on the figures and forms of the classics as they are classic whodunits in their own right.   In Aristotle Detective, we first meet Stephanosnaive Watson to Aristotle’s learned Holmesa young landed Athenian and student of Aristotle. With the aid of his cunning, olive-loving teacher, Stephanos must clear his exiled cousin of murder and save his family’s honor in a tense public trial. Will Stephanos survive to cinch the case?

Contemporary

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published. Doody also draws upon a mine of letters and diaries for detailed and sometimes surprising biographical information. Burney's feelings and emotions forcefully emerge in her sophisticated and complex late novels, Camilla and The Wanderer. Her novels all relate to personal experience; as an artist she is attracted to the violent, the grotesque, and the macabre. She is a powerful comic writer, but her comedy is far from reflecting a shallow cheerfulness. Bringing a novelist's perspective to her material, in this 1989 book Doody shows an appreciation of the many dimensions of a predecessor's writings and she tells her story with force and conviction.

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

Arts & Literature

Cambridge University Press

The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered

The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between them. Augustan poetry has too often been thought of as uniform, staidly classical, even dull. Margaret Doody explodes this myth once and for all. She shows it to be poetry of great energy and diversity: of extravagant conceits, subversive parody, incessant stylistic and formal experimentation; a self-consciously innovative poetry that sought to express and extend the perpetual, restless activity of the human mind. Both the principles and techniques of the verse are related to similar elements in the novels of the period; the book's numerous illustrations help to show how the poems were presented and interpreted in their own time.

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published. Doody also draws upon a mine of letters and diaries for detailed and sometimes surprising biographical information. Burney's feelings and emotions forcefully emerge in her sophisticated and complex late novels, Camilla and The Wanderer. Her novels all relate to personal experience; as an artist she is attracted to the violent, the grotesque, and the macabre. She is a powerful comic writer, but her comedy is far from reflecting a shallow cheerfulness. Bringing a novelist's perspective to her material, in this 1989 book Doody shows an appreciation of the many dimensions of a predecessor's writings and she tells her story with force and conviction.

Frances Burney

Rutgers University Press

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