Author: J. B. Bullen
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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A study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19
Author: Hermann Lea
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Randall Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Wessex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Hardy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Author: Henry Charles Duffin
Publisher: Manchester : University Press ; London ; New York : Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Wessex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
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Category : Wessex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Dale Kramer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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