A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Keith Wilson
John Wiley & Sons, May 4, 2009 - Literary Criticism - 504 pages
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
 

Contents

Hardy as Biographical Subject
7
Hardy and Philosophy
21
An Enchanting Hardy?
36
Hardy and the Place of Culture
54
Hardy and
71
Thomas Hardys Notebooks
86
Discourse
102
Gender in the Interstices
117
Narrative in The Return of the Native
254
Hardys Novels of Ingenuity Desperate Remedies The Hand
267
Hardys Romances and Fantasies A Pair of Blue Eyes
281
The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge
299
Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders
313
Tess of the dUrbervilles
328
The Religious
345
Sequence and Series in Hardys Poetry
378

Hardy in the Rural
133
Thomas Hardy of London
146
Hardy and Class
162
The Case of Far From
178
Hardy and Romantic Love
194
Hardy and the Visual Arts
210
Uncanny Sounds
223
Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From
241
The Scholarly Situation
395
Spectacle Narration and Laughter
413
HandWriting in The Mayor of Casterbridge
433
Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics
450
D H Lawrence and John Cowper Powys
465
Index
479
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Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Thomas Hardy on Stage (1995), editor of the Penguin Classics editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge (1997; 2003) and The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (2003, with Kristin Brady), and editor of Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (2006). He has also published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, Victorian and Edwardian music hall, and the literary representation of London.

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