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Author Berning Schaefer, Juliette

Title Thomas Hardy's Short Stories : New Perspectives
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series The Nineteenth Century Series
Nineteenth Century Series
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Periodical publication; 1 Neither tales nor short stories? issues of authorship, readership, and publishing in A Group of Noble Dames; 2 "Moonlight nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News; Part II Gender relationships; 3 "Getting life-leased at all cost": marriage in Hardy's late short stories; 4 Pregnant by a portrait: the dynamics of desire for Hardy's "Imaginative Woman"; 5 "Imaginative sentiment": love, letters, and literacy in Thomas Hardy's shorter fiction
Part III Community relationships6 Hardy and humor: the mores of Wessex; 7 Love, deception, and disguise in A Few Crusted Characters; Part IV Narrative technique; 8 "To correct the misrelation": reading Hardy's Wessex Tales; 9 Representations of the body in Hardy's Life's Little Ironies; 10 Hardy's mercurial narrator: "breaking the frame" in "A Changed Man"; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Craft Brownson, Siobhan
ISBN 9781317010425
1317010426