Thomas Hardys Shorter 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 : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261787
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection was the third that Hardy collected together himself for publication as a single volume. It reflects the experiences of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The stories are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage.

Author : Kristin Brady
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349074020
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Stories of Thomas Hardy written by Kristin Brady and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010418
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Short Stories written by Juliette Berning Schaefer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333482681
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1772754250
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex Tales written by Thomas Hardy and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appearing in 1888, Wessex Tales is a collection of short stories by the supremely gifted Thomas Hardy. The perfect way to get acquainted with Hardy's world. Several of the tales were adapted for television in a 1973 BBC mini series starring, among others, John Hurt, Billie Whitlelaw, and Ben Kingsley. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317010426
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Short Stories written by Juliette Berning Schaefer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imaginative Woman written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

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.