num_pages: 260
description: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These newly commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprise a general overview of all of Thomas Hardy's work and specific demonstrations of his 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. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life, and a guide to further reading.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Literature, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Cambridge University Press