Study Of Thomas Hardy

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521252522
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Trish Ferguson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748673253
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions written by Trish Ferguson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748632557
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction written by Sophie Gilmartin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754662457
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of Thomas Hardy written by Arthur Symons and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1927 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795351607
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Study of Thomas Hardy written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067473789X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Thomas Hardy’s poetry and fiction are so closely associated with Wessex, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner, moving between country and capital throughout his life. This self-division, Mark Ford says, can be traced not only in works explicitly set in London but in his most regionally circumscribed novels.

Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814252758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Brains written by Suzanne Keen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluates Hardy's representations of minds, the will, and consciousness (and nescience) in the context of Victorian brain science and Victorian medical neurology.

Author : Scott McEathron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797175
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles written by Scott McEathron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering: a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems an overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of reprinted extracts from critical works key passages from the novel, reprinted with editorial comment and cross-referenced within the volume to contextual and critical documents suggestions for further reading and a list of relevant web resources. For students on a wide range of courses, this sourcebook offers the essential stepping-stone from a basic reading knowledge to an advanced understanding of Hardy's best-known novel.

Author : Jane Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137305061
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Desire written by Jane Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.