Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 384963714X
In "A Laodicean" (1881) Mr. Hardy became less spontaneous and charming, although more subtle and, perhaps, more powerful. The heroine, Paula Power, the Laodicean, neither hot nor cold, is a most interesting study in feminine psychology. The three leading male characters—Somerset, the architect, Dare, the adventurer, and Captain de Stancy, the scion of a decayed family—are well drawn.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2024-05-24
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ISBN : 3385473217
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 1893
Category : English fiction
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
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This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy A Laodicean : A Story of To-day THE MAYOR of CASTERBRIDGE Far From The Madding Crowd
Author : Trish Ferguson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748673253
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.
Author : Robert L. Caserio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316175103
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113708619X
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.
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350309435
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.
Author : P. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113749154X
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
