Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180946542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Jude Fawley is a young and ambitious working-class man with dreams of pursuing an education and becoming a scholar. His plans are thwarted when he is lured into an unhappy marriage with a woman who doesn’t truly love him. As Jude navigates the complexities of love and relationships, he finds himself entangled in a tumultuous affair with his cousin, Sue Bridehead, a free-spirited and unconventional woman. Together, they challenge the conventions of society and struggle to find happiness and fulfillment in a world that seems determined to keep them apart THOMAS HARDY [1840-1928] was an English poet and author. His work is characterized by realism and criticism of the strict Victorian ideals which he believed limited people's lives and happiness. He achieved great success with the novel Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] and continued with successes such as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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A collection of eight critical essays on Thomas Hardy's last major novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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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: Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: Emma Brodie
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six"--
Author: Dr Jane L Bownas
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409471098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire and in spite of the many allusions to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic Wars in his writing. Jane L. Bownas examines the context of these references, proposing that Hardy was a writer who not only posed a challenge to the whole of established society, but one whose writings bring into question the very notion of empire. Bownas argues that Hardy takes up ideas of the primitive and civilized that were central to Western thought in the nineteenth century, contesting this opposition and highlighting the effect outsiders have on so-called 'primitive' communities. In her discussion of the oppressions of imperialism, she analyzes the debate surrounding the use of gender as an articulated category, together with race and class, and shows how, in exposing the power structures operating within Britain, Hardy produces a critique of all forms of ideological oppression.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393937527
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This Third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy's final novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Jude Fawley's aspirations to the dignity and rewards of life are continually thwarted by tragic obstacles of fate. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'.
