Thomas Hardy
By: Julian Wolfreys.
Series: Critical issues
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780333922507
Subjects: Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Abbreviations and a Note on the Text * Aknowedgements * Introduction: Dwelling on HardyApprehension, Suspension, Abstention: Desperate Remedies (1871) * Distortions and Transformations: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) * Being and Dwelling: Far From the Madding Crowd (1874),The Return of the Native (1878) and Two on a Tower (1882) * Uncommon Events: The Trumpet Major (1880), A Laodicean (1881) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) * Confessions of the Other:The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895) * Afterword * Notes * Bibliography * Index Abbreviations and a Note on the Text * Aknowedgements * Introduction: Dwelling on HardyApprehension, Suspension, Abstention: Desperate Remedies (1871) * Distortions and Transformations: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) * Being and Dwelling: Far From the Madding Crowd (1874),The Return of the Native (1878) and Two on a Tower (1882) * Uncommon Events: The Trumpet Major (1880), A Laodicean (1881) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) * Confessions of the Other:The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895) * Afterword * Notes * Bibliography * Index.