Celebrating Thomas Hardy: Insights and Appreciations

by Charles P C Pettit (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349140152
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Edition description:	1st ed. 1996
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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