The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas HardyRosemarie Morgan Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, this book offers an overview of Hardy criticism and suggests new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including class, the split between town and country, philosophy, biography, science, film, and popular culture. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part I | 13 |
An Early Literary Influence and a Late Topographical Construct | 14 |
Genre and Case Studies | 17 |
xi | 63 |
6 | 89 |
16 | 287 |
Hardy and Gender | 301 |
The Driftiness of Tragedy | 371 |
A Pair of Blue Eyes and Jude the Obscure | 387 |
Representation | 403 |
Illustrators and Biographers | 425 |
Hardy and the Biographers | 465 |
Sage Writers in Tribute to Their Muse | 485 |
Hands in Hardy | 505 |
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