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The Cambridge companion to Thomas Hardy / edited by Dale Kramer.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Cambridge companions to literaturePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xxv, 231 sISBN:
  • 0521562023
  • 0521566924
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.8 21
Other classification:
  • Gez Hardy, Thomas
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Notes and contributors (p. xi)
  • Preface (p. xv)
  • A chronology of Hardy's life and Publications (p. xviii)
  • List of abbreviations and texts (p. xxiii)
  • 1 Thomas Hardy: the biographical source (p. 1)
  • 2 Wessex (p. 19)
  • 3 Art and aesthetics (p. 38)
  • 4 The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardy's writings (p. 54)
  • 5 Hardy and critical theory (p. 73)
  • 6 Thomas Hardy and matters of gender (p. 93)
  • 7 Variants on genre: The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Hand of Ethelberta (p. 112)
  • 8 The patriarchy of class: Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders (p. 130)
  • 9 The radical aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (p. 145)
  • 10 Hardy and readers: Jude the Obscure (p. 164)
  • 11 Hardy as a nineteenth-century poet (p. 183)
  • 12 The modernity of Thomas Hardy's poetry (p. 204)
  • Index (p. 224)