A Study Of Thomas Hardy

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985-07-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521252520

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Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays by D. H. Lawrence Pdf

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
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748673254

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Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions by Trish Ferguson Pdf

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 : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Study of Thomas Hardy by Arthur Symons Pdf

The noted literary critic presents a brief but trenchant analysis of the author's use of characterization in his novels. Originally published in a limited edition of 350 copies.

Author : G. Glen Wickens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802048641

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Thomas Hardy, Monism and the Carnival Tradition by G. Glen Wickens Pdf

Using insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, Wickens counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres.

Author : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748632558

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Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction by Sophie Gilmartin Pdf

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 : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814252753

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Thomas Hardy's Brains by Suzanne Keen Pdf

Reevaluates Hardy's representations of minds, the will, and consciousness (and nescience) in the context of Victorian brain science and Victorian medical neurology.

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795351600

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Study of Thomas Hardy by D. H. Lawrence Pdf

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
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674737891

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Thomas Hardy by Mark Ford Pdf

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 : Scott McEathron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317797173

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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Scott McEathron Pdf

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 : Norman Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136663871

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Thomas Hardy (Routledge Revivals) by Norman Page Pdf

First published in 1977, this concise and insightful study of the life and works of Thomas Hardy provides a thorough examination of Hardy's literary output. Alongside a brief biography of Hardy's life, Professor Page's study also spotlights his major and minor novels, his short stories, his non-fiction prose and his verse.

Author : Jane Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137305060

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Thomas Hardy and Desire by Jane Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115887

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Thomas Hardy by Harold Bloom Pdf

Provides reviews of six prominent works by the poet Thomas Hardy along with criticism and thematic analysis of other works and a short biography of the poet.

Author : Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476673653

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Thomas Hardy by Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies, environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students, and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy's novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces, literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy's novels. The companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and suggestions for further study.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664339

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A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : John Worthen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349033225

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D.H.Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel by John Worthen Pdf

Annotation This Seductive and Engaging Biography offers a bold reappraisal of a man who was deeply uncomfortable in his own skin. Lawrence's fascination with the body and his determination to articulate its every experience brought about his notorious reputation, and ultimately, his literary redemption. What emerges in John Worthen's portrait is an intimate and absolutely compelling study of an individual in angry revolt against his class, culture, and country--a man passionately struggling to live in accordance with his beliefs.