Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,45 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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1108033830
The first volume (1928) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 2377 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : 49,47 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 : 47,47 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 : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791076784
Victorian England produces some the the greatest novelists in Western history, including Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot. Critical analysis focuses on the development of the Victorian novel through the second half of the 19th century.
Author : Gillian Steinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137318384
Gillian Steinberg offers an approachable introduction to the poems of one of the most prolific and influential English writers, through an examination of wide-ranging selections from his work. Part I of this invaluable study: - Provides clear and stimulating close readings of Thomas Hardy's key poems - Considers major themes in Hardy's poetry, including ghosts, God's role in the world, war, and the painful passage of time - Summarizes the methods of analysis and provides suggestions for further work Part II supplies essential background material, featuring: - An account of Hardy's life and works - Samples of criticism from important Hardy scholars With a helpful Further Reading section, this insightful volume is ideal for anyone who wishes to appreciate and explore Hardy's poetry for themselves.
Author : Delia Correa Sousa de
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136749993
The essays in this volume trace the experimentation of nineteenth-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction while revitalizing the inheritance of the Gothic and the Romantic. Focusing on some of the most popular novels of the century (Northanger Abbey, Jayne Eyre, Dombey and Son, Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd and Germinal), this attractive volume explores some of the recurring themes in nineteenth-century fiction: aspiration and vocation; social class; sexual politics; political reform; colonialism and commerce. This is an ideal introduction to some of the major fictional achievements of the first industrial era, and to most of the crucial themes in nineteenth-century fiction.
Author : Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0415238269
This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction.
Author : Penelope Vigar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472509986
What he himself characteristically called 'his idiosyncratic mode of regard' is a factor few readers of Hardy's novels can overlook and one with which all serious students of his fiction must come to terms. The fact that there is nevertheless little final agreement about the nature of his achievement has prompted Miss Vigar to make a fresh study of Hardy's own notes and essays on the art of the novel and to analyse his fictional technique in the light of these unduly neglected observations. Her approach centres on Hardy's pervasive theme of the contrast between appearance and reality and on his frequent use of 'pictorial' devices to express his imaginative vision. She is able to develop a critical account of Hardy's work that can convincingly explain, by reference to the same criteria, both its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and failures.
