Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108033822
The second volume (1930) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.
Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Based on contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 2377 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857285920
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a major English poet and novelist; his works, often set in the fictional county of Wessex, are memorable for their realism and criticism of social constraints. This book, the first volume of a two volume selected collection of his works, includes ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
Author : G. W. Sherman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838615829
Explains the social reasons for Thomas Hardy's consistent pessimism expressed in all his major works. The author contends that this came from the failure of bourgeois society to correct the anachronisms in the social machinery of the day.
Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317041283
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.
Author : Kristin Brady
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 1984-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349074020
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2656 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199725314
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
Author : H. Orel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230373712
'... Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings is an informative book, and a superlatively well-edited one. Professor Orel has been generous in his inclusions, meticulous in his texts, and thorough in his annotations. Anything that one is likely to want to read of Hardy's occasional prose is here, and what is not here is carefully described in an annotated appendix. The book takes it place at once with Richard Purdy's bibliography as a standard, useful, trustworthy work in the library of essential Hardy scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement '... these essays certainly deserve to be much better known.' Raymond Williams, Guardian
Author : Simon Barker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441148027
Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development.
Author : Will Abberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316300870
Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with others of decay and degeneration. Furthermore, the blurring of language evolution with biological evolution encouraged Victorians to re-imagine language as a mixture of social convention and primordial instinct. Abberley argues that fiction by authors such as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells not only reflected these intellectual currents, but also helped to shape them. Genres from utopia to historical romance supplied narrative models for generating thought experiments in the possible pasts and futures of language. Equally, fiction that explored the instinctive roots of language intervened in debates about language standardisation and scientific objectivity. These textual readings offer new perspectives on twenty-first-century discussions about language evolution and the language of science.
