Hardy was a poet of ghosts. and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy's poetry.
Hardy was a poet of ghosts. and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 186...
