Degrees of Freedom
First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt''s Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch''s interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch''s own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt discu...
First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt''s Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch''s interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch''s own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt discu...
