| Author | : Phillip Mallett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2013-03-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521196485 |
This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.
| Author | : Phillip Mallett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2013-03-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139618911 |
This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.
| Author | : Trish Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-08-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748673253 |
Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre's engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.
| Author | : George Levine |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316834018 |
This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview of Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing strategies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the criticism of great novelists - in particular Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardy in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life that sometimes drives his bleakest narratives.
| Author | : Keith Wilson |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2009-05-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1405156686 |
Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy’s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers
| Author | : Suzanne Keen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ronald D. Morrison |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2021-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476643016 |
Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies, environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students, and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy's novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces, literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy's novels. The companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and suggestions for further study.
| Author | : Thomas Hardy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1892 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Geoffrey Harvey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2003-12-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134565356 |
Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century England. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work, including: the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Exposition and guide, this volume enables readers to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
