Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
Author: Scott Rode
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0415978386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author: Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 1317041283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.
Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Author: David Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1317104552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the field, but also informs a new generation of digital humanities scholars about the critical and creative potentials of digital literary mapping. The book showcases the work of exemplary literary mapping projects and provides the reader with an overview of the tools, techniques and methods those projects employ.
Mapping the Wessex Novel
Author: Andrew Radford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1441148337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, Mapping the Wessex Novel imaginatively maps and excavates various districts of the 'west country' so as radically to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification. Contributing to the growing research on space and place in Victorian and Modernist writing, Radford uses the analysis of these writers as a lens through which to inspect the relationship between rural periphery and metropolitan centre; contested ideologies of 'Englishness' and the form of the national past.
Student Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author: Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2006-12-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0313088330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time. Hardy's publishing of fiction, drama, poetry, and the short story ranks him with Shakespeare, one of few other authors in the English language to write major works in more than one literary genre. Growing up, Hardy apprenticed as an architect but soon realized his true calling was writing. He based much of his work on his homeland and local culture in England, creating the fictional county of Wessex, the setting for most of his works. This companion explores the life of Hardy, examining his career and most important works. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, as well as readers with a general interest in Hardy's life and works, this book takes a close look at Hardy's unconventional works and why he ultimately decided to abandon novel-writing in favor of his first love-poetry.
The Return of the Native
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-03-13
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1460402529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Return of the Native was a radical departure for Thomas Hardy, ushering in his tragic literary vision of the world. Though set in a small space (Egdon Heath in the fictional county of Wessex) and short time (the main action spans a year and a day), the novel addresses the broad social and intellectual upheavals of the Victorian age. Much of this turmoil is embodied in the character of Eustacia Vye, the novel’s wilful female protagonist. A complex, independent young woman, Eustacia is a sympathetic but ultimately tragic figure, the epitome of what the narrator calls the “irrepressible New.” The appendices to this Broadview edition place the novel in the context of Hardy’s career and the scientific and social ideas of the time. Documents include contemporary reviews, related writings by Hardy, and materials on biology, geology, and the “Woman Question.” Illustrations from the original serialization in Belgravia magazine and Hardy’s performance text of the mummers’ play are also included.
Dickens's Secular Gospel
Author: Chris Louttit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1135217505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. Instead, by analyzing a wide range of Dickens’s fiction and journalism in the light of new biographical and historical research, Louttit shows that Dickens is not interested in work as an abstract, positive value, or even in cataloguing it in concrete detail. What he explores instead is the human dimension of work: how, in other words, work affects the lives of those engaged in it. His writing about work is, as a result, best viewed not merely as a quasi-religious Gospel of Work, nor as an objective sociological report, but rather as what Louttit terms a "secular gospel."
The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
Author: Rena Jackson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3031694538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBirdsong, Speech and Poetry
Author: Francesca Mackenney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-09-22
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1009084089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Science in Modern Poetry
Author: John Holmes
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-03-31
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1781388342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia.
