Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-07-25

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780521252522

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D. H. Lawrence's 'Study of Thomas Hardy', written in the early months of World War I, was originally intended to be a short critical work on Hardy's characters, but developed into a major statement of Lawrence's philosophy of art. The introduction to this work shows its relation to Lawrence's final rewriting of The Rainbow and its place among his continual attempts to express his philosophy in a definitive form. Previously published posthumously from a corrupt typescript, the 'Study' is now more firmly based on Koteliansky's typescript - Lawrence having destroyed the manuscript. The other essays in this volume span virtually the whole of Lawrence's writing career, from 'Art and the Individual' (1908) to his last essay 'John Galsworthy', written in 1927. The introduction sets these essays in the context of Lawrence's life and work. The textual apparatus gives variant readings, and explanatory notes identify references and quotations, and offer background information.

Study of Thomas Hardy
Study of Thomas Hardy

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2019-02-20

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0795351607

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The celebrated novelist and poet presents his philosophy of literature and art through an in-depth analysis of Thomas Hardy in this restored edition. Though D. H. Lawrence was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his works were severely corrupted by the stringent house-styling of printers and the intrusive editing of timid publishers. A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore the definitive texts of D. H. Lawrence in The Cambridge Editions. Originally intended to be a short critical work on fellow English novelist Thomas Hardy’s characters, D. H. Lawrence’s Study of Thomas Hardydeveloped into a sweeping articulation of his views on literature and art. Though Lawrence destroyed the original manuscript, the work was published posthumously. This restored and authoritative edition also includes essays spanning the whole of Lawrence’s writing career, with an introduction contextualizing them within Lawrence’s life and work.

Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions
Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions

Author: Trish Ferguson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0748673253

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Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre's engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.

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

Author: Rosemarie Morgan

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9780754662457

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Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggests new directions in Hardy studies. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed specifically 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.

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy

Author: Mark Ford

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-10-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 067473789X

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Acknowledgements -- Index

Thomas Hardy's Brains
Thomas Hardy's Brains

Author: Suzanne Keen

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814252758

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Reevaluates Hardy's representations of minds, the will, and consciousness (and nescience) in the context of Victorian brain science and Victorian medical neurology.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

Author: Dale Kramer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-06-24

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1139825550

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Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.

Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe

Author: Pamela Gossin

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780754603368

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In the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin offers complex and inspired readings of seven novels that enrich previous Darwinian, feminist and formalist perspectives on his work. S

Thomas Hardy and Desire
Thomas Hardy and Desire

Author: Jane Thomas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1137305061

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Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.