Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels
Subtitle: Megamachines and Phantasms
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781403916624
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Social change in literature; History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; England; Tragic, The, in literature; 1840-1928; 19th century; Fictional works; Hardy, Thomas,; Literature and society; Political and social views
First sentence: Strange Anglo-American literature: from Thomas Hardy, from D.H. Lawrence to Malcolm Lowry, from Henry Miller to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, men who know how to leave, to scramble codes, to cause flows to circulate, to traverse the desert of the body without organs.