Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Author: Tony Fincham
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780992915155
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Author: Tony Fincham
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780992915155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. B. Bullen
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1781011222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19
Author: Mark Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-10-10
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 067473789X
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 360
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 284
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1100
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kester Rattenbury
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848222502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Hardy's architectural career is not considered a success. Seen usually as a mere prelude to his literary output, it is most often summed up by reference to the 'shockingly' suburban home he built himself at Max Gate. But in this new work, Professor Kester Rattenbury argues the opposite: that far from being incidental, Hardy's architectural thinking is integral to a full understanding of his life's work. This is the first time Hardy's life and legacy have been studied by a fellow architectural writer and critic. Reconstructed from the wealth of little-known drawings, photographs, experimental illustrations and modest built work he produced or oversaw, and an architecturally-biased re-reading of his novels, this book sets out a startling new vision of Thomas Hardy's work, and how it has shaped England in fact and fiction. The Wessex Project exposes the architectural thinking and invention underlying Hardy's novels. It shows how his famous imaginary realm Wessex can be seen as a forerunner of the experimental architectural projects of our own times - in which architects weave together design, description, polemic, and images of both real and imagined spaces, to form highly developed and challenging unbuilt projects, published in books designed to change the way we see the world. The book makes a compelling case for listing Hardy among the greatest of all conceptual architects, as well as recognising him as one of the most influential and active conservationists and architectural critics of all time. This radical new perspective gives Hardy's many readers a chance, at last, to see Wessex as the author himself constructed it: through architectural eyes.