| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 488 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 61 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 61.
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| Contents |
Hardy as Biographical Subject / Michael Millgate -- Hardy and Philosophy / Phillip Mallett -- Hardy and Darwin : An Enchanting Hardy? / George Levine -- Hardy and the Place of Culture / Angelique Richardson -- "The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious'' : Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years / Pamela Dalziel -- Thomas Hardy's Notebooks / William Greenslade -- "Genres are not to be mixed ... I will not mix them'' : Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy's Fiction / Richard Nemesvari -- Hardy and his Critics : Gender in the Interstices / Margaret R. Higonnet -- "His Country'' : Hardy in the Rural / Ralph Pite -- Thomas Hardy of London / Keith Wilson -- "A Thickness of Wall'': Hardy and Class / Roger Ebbatson -- Reading Hardy through Dress : The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd / Simon Gatrell -- Hardy and Romantic Love / Michael Irwin -- Hardy and the Visual Arts / J.B. Bullen -- Hardy and Music : Uncanny Sounds / Claire Seymour -- The Darkening Pastoral : Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd / Stephen Regan -- "Wild Regions of Obscurity'' : Narrative in The Return of the Native / Penny Boumelha -- Hardy's "Novels of Ingenuity'' Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean : Rare Hands at Contrivances / Mary Rimmer -- Hardy's "Romances and Fantasies'' A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved : Experiments in Metafiction / Jane Thomas -- The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge / Julian Wolfreys -- Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders / Andrew Radford -- Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity : Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Tim Dolin -- Jude the Obscure and English National Identity : The Religious Striations of Wessex / Dennis Taylor -- " ... into the hands of pure-minded English girls'' : Hardy's Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace / Peter Widdowson -- Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry / Tim Armstrong -- Hardy's Poems : The Scholarly Situation / William W. Morgan -- That's Show Business : Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts / G. Glen Wickens -- Modernist Hardy : Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge / J. Hillis Miller -- Inhibiting the Voice : Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics / Charles Lock -- Hardy's Heirs : D.H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys / Terry R. Wright |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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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 |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Keith (Keith G.)
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| ISBN |
9781444324228 |
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1444324225 |
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9781444331493 |
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1444331493 |
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9781444324211 |
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1444324217 |
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