| Description |
1 online resource (x, 144 pages) |
| Contents |
Wessex tales -- A group of noble dames -- Life's little ironies -- A changed man |
| Summary |
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. Key Features The only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. The provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close readings of a number of key stories enhances the book's attractiveness as a potential teaching resource. Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women |
| Bibliography |
Includes select bibliography (pages 136-140) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Fictional works
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| SUBJECT |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast |
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Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 gnd |
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Hardy, Thomas. swd |
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Short story.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Criticism and interpretation
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Short story
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Kurzgeschichte
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mengham, Rod, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0748632557 |
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9780748632558 |
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1281252212 |
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9781281252210 |
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9780748651641 |
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0748651640 |
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