Celebrating Thomas Hardy: Insights and Appreciations

ISBN-13: 9781349140152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 200 str.

Charles P. C. Pettit

Opis

The essays collected in Celebrating Thomas Hardy include both scholarly studies by leading academics and personal appreciations by perceptive readers and writers. The volume is therefore both a substantial contribution to Hardy studies, which will be valuable to students and academics, and an approachable companion to Hardy for enthusiasts. Responding with a wide variety of subjects and approaches to Hardy's varied 'voices', the volume particularly emphasises Hardy's connections with other writers, from John Clare to Toni Morrison.

Spis treści

Foreword; F.Swann - Preface; C.P.C. Pettit - Notes on the Contributors - Thomas Hardy's Poetry: Poetic Apprehension and Poetic Method; J.Gibson - Moments of Vision, and After; L.Lerner - Stability and Subversion: Thomas Hardy's Voices; L.St John Butler - Thomas Hardy and John Clare: a Soil Observed, a Soil Ploughed; R.Blythe - Hardy's Friend, William Barnes; P.Levi - Hardy and Decadence; G.Beer - Hardy, George Moore and the 'Doll' of English Fiction; S.Curtis - 'Wives All': Emma and Florence Hardy; M.Millgate - Bodily Transactions: Toni Morrison and Thomas Hardy in Literary Discourse; R.Morgan - The Far and the Near: on Reading Thomas Hardy Today; P.Rothermel - Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta, and Some Persisting English Discomforts; E.Blishen - Index