On Thomas Hardy: Late Essays and Earlier

ISBN-13: 9780333679982 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str.

Peter Widdowson

Opis

The author, a leading and influential critic of Thomas Hardy, brings together for the first time essays representing both his major critical work over the last fifteen years and three entirely new pieces. This volume allows readers to test the force of Widdowson's critical polemic in undispersed form. Readable, engaged and, no doubt, often infuriating, this is a book for all those who still regard Hardy as 'our contemporary'.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- References and Abbreviations.- Introduction.- Thomas Hardy: a Partial Portrait.- Hardy in History: a Case-study in the Sociology of Literature.- Hardy and Social Class: The Hand of Ethelberta.- Hardy's 'Quite Worthless' Novel: A Laodicean.- 'Moments of Vision: Post-modernising Tess of the d'Urbervilles: or Tess of the d'Urbervilles Faithfully Presented by Peter Widdowson.- Recasting Hardy the Poet.- Arabella and the Satirical Discourse in Jude the Obscure.- Postscript: The Film of Jude.- Notes.- References.- Index.

O autorze

PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire.