Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist

ISBN-13: 9780333623152 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 428 str.

Michael Millgate; M. Millgate

Opis

This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career".

Spis treści

Preface to 1994 Reissue - Preface - PRELUDE - The Poor Man and the Lady - PART 1: APPRENTICESHIP - Desperate Remedies - 'Ce Saxon autodidacte': A Matter of Education - Under the Greenwood Tree - Bockhampton and St Juliot: The Exploitation of Autobiography - A Pair of Blue Eyes - PART 2: ACHIEVEMENT - Far from the Madding Crowd - Puddletown into Weatherbury: The Genesis of Wessex - The Hand of Ethelberta - On Native Grounds: Kegan Paul and William Barnes - The Return of the Native - PART 3: RECESSION - The Trumpet-Major - The Uses of a Regional Past - A Laodicean - Hardy's Laodiceanism: Politics and Ideas - Two on a Tower - PART 4: RENEWAL - Max Gate - 'The Dorsetshire Labourer' - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Evolution of Wessex - The Woodlanders - PART 5: FULFILMENT - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Candour in English Fiction - The Well-Beloved - Hardy and the Theatre - Jude the Obscure - AFTERWORD - The End of Prose - Notes - Index

O autorze

MICHAEL MILLGATE