Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels
Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels

Author: D. Musselwhite

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-09-16

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0230504523

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Drawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy's Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking rereading of Hardy's four major tragic novels. The readings are sophisticated and yet accessible. The theoretical work is complemented by the use of new and hitherto unregarded major empirical findings that reveal the very heart of Hardy's creative universe.

Student Companion to Thomas Hardy
Student Companion to Thomas Hardy

Author: Rosemarie Morgan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-12-30

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0313088330

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In 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.

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1604138076

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- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy

Author: Julian Wolfreys

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1350309435

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No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

Author: Rosemarie Morgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1317041283

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In 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.

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses
Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Author: Hugh Epstein

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1474449883

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This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.

Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884
Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884

Author: Julian Wolfreys

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-06-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 113708619X

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This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wilkie Collins - George Eliot - Thomas Hardy. Wolfreys explores the novelists' constructions of modernity, national identity and their understanding of 'becoming historical' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role of cultural memory in the making of identity. Also featuring a helpful Chronology and an Annotated Bibliography to aid further study, this stimulating guide encourages readers to reassess the work of key writers of the nineteenth century.

Jude the Obscure (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Jude the Obscure (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0393269191

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This Third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy’s final novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy’s final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Expanded footnotes by Ralph Pite, further drawing out Hardy’s web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative. · A selection of Hardy’s poems—four of them new to the Third Edition—that emphasizes the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose. · Eighteen critical responses, including eleven modern essays—eight of them new to the Third Edition. Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig, and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2013-03-13

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1460402529

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The 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.

Victorian Time
Victorian Time

Author: T. Ferguson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1137007982

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Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.