Thomas Hardy S Shorter Fiction

Author : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1853261785

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Selected Short Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf

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
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349074020

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Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady Pdf

Author : Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010425

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories by Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson Pdf

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 : Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010418

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories by Juliette Berning Schaefer,Siobhan Craft Brownson Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0333482689

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Collected Short Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Kristin Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349168238

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The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254664712

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The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 1219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849640460

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The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

This is the annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author. This compilation of Thomas Hardy's short stories is one of the most complete on the book market. Every single story was tracked down and integrated into this book. Hours of enjoyable reading lies ahead of you because Hardy was a real genius among the English fiction writers. From the contents: A Changed Man The Waiting Supper Alicia's Diary The Grave By The Handpost Enter A Dragoon A Tryst At An Ancient Earth Work What The Shepherd Saw: A Tale Of Four Moonlight Nights A Committee-Man Of 'The Terror' Master John Horseleigh, Knight The Duke's Reappearance—A Family Tradition A Mere Interlude The First Countess Of Wessex Barbara Of The House Of Grebe The Marchioness Of Stonehenge Lady Mottisfont The Lady Icenway Squire Petrick's Lady Anna, Lady Baxby The Lady Penelope The Duchess Of Hamptonshire The Honourable Laura The Son's Veto For Conscience' Sake A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions On The Western Circuit To Please His Wife The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion The Fiddler Of The Reels A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four A Few Crusted Characters Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver The History Of The Hardcomes The Superstitious Man's Story Andrey Satchel And The Parson And Clerk Old Andrey's Experience As A Musician Absent-Mindedness In A Parish Choir The Winters And The Palmleys Incident In The Life Of Mr. George Crookhill Netty Sargent's Copyhold An Imaginative Woman The Three Strangers ... and many more ...

Author : Trish Ferguson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Kristin Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0333372190

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The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Kristin Brady Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1857994388

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The Complete Stories by Thomas Hardy Pdf

These collections appear here together with a selection of the stories which appeared in magazines but were never collected.Varying considerably in content, style and form,these tales belong to the great age of the short story and are winning greater recognition as an important element of Hardys literary testament

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728325575

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A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy Pdf

‘A Group of Noble Dames’ is a collection of ten short stories, framed by a central narrative. Thomas Hardy ties the tales together by presenting them as a conversation between the members of a club, in which each one tells the story of a noblewoman from the 17th or 18th Century. Through their accounts, Hardy examines a range of themes, including marriage, deceit, and social conventions. A consummate storyteller, the dialogue and characterisations are superb, allowing the reader to be drawn into each tale. ‘Barbara of the House of Grebe’, one of the short stories from the collection, was later adapted for TV, starring Ben Kingsley. Born in Dorset, Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) was one of the most renowned poets and novelists of the 20th Century. The ill-health that plagued him as a child followed him into early adulthood, scuppering his chances of working as an architectural draftsman. His further ambitions into the priesthood were halted by lack of funds and his wavering faith, leading him to develop his writing abilities Over the course of his career, Hardy wrote 20 novels, numerous poems, and countless short stories. Many of his most famous works have been adapted for film or television, such as ‘Far from the Madding Crowd (starring Nigel Terry), ‘Jude’ (starring Kate Winslet), and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge ́ (starring Ciaran Hinds). Hardy died from pleurisy, aged 88.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:282629449

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The Best Short Stories of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603121749

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A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy Pdf

The great British novelist Thomas Hardy, among other things, was the author of the poem, "The Dead Man Walking." Considered the "writer of Dorset," Hardy's fictional Wessex is perhaps bleaker than the real Dorset itself, long possessed of a hard, cold, lonely beauty. "A Changed Man and Other Tales" is a collection of Hardy's stories written between 1880 and 1910. The title story is reminiscent of Hardy's longer, darker novels such as "Jude the Obscure." The "Changed Man" is Captain Maumbry, a dashing Hussar from a regiment that comes to Casterbridge, captivating all the young women and most of the young men. But the regiment is "haunted" and -- after a new parson comes to town, the formerly carefree soldier Maumbry is transformed into a deeply religious minister. But his wife has no intention of becoming a poor parson's bridge; the dissolution of their marriage and both of their lives constitutes the rest of the tale. In distilling deep insight from what serves as cruel gossip in most towns -- not merely Casterbridge -- Hardy is writing about his heart's truest subject. "A Changed Man and Other Tales" is highly recommended for readers who are moved by such bleak, uncompromising, yet truthful visions.