Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367881931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Juliette Berning Schaefer; Siobhan Craft Brownson

Opis

While reviews of Hardy’s later novels typically split between conservative disapproval and progressive acclaim, the contemporary reception of Hardy’s second collection of stories, first issued at Christmas 1890, was exceptionally uncertain. This monograph attempts to explain why by approaching the work from a book-historical viewpoint. It c

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CONTENTS

List of Figures

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part One: Periodical Publication

1 Neither Tales nor Short Stories: Issues of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing in A

Group of Noble Dames

Graham Law

2 "Moonlight Nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News

Siobhan Craft Brownson

Part Two: Gender Relationships

3"Getting life-leased at all cost": Marriage in Hardy’s Late Short Stories

Suzanne Flynn

4 Pregnant by a Portrait: The Dynamics of Desire for Hardy’s

"Imaginative Woman"

Deborah Manion

5"Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction

Karin Koehler

Part Three: Community Relationships

6 Hardy and Humor: The Mores of Wessex

Juliette Berning Schaefer

7 Love, Deception, and Disguise in A Few Crusted Characters

JoAnna Stephens Mink

Part Four: Narrative Technique

8 "To Correct the Misrelation": Reading Hardy’s Wessex Tales

Neelanjana Basu

9 Representations of the Body in Hardy’s Life’s Little Ironies

Carolina Paganine

10 Hardy’s Mercurial Narrator: "Breaking the Frame" in "A Changed Man"

Keith Callis

Notes on Contributors

Index

O autorze

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, USA, and Siobhan Craft Brownson is Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, USA.