George Levine

Reading Thomas Hardy

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful new account of Hardy's novels by a leading scholar, emphasizing their affirmative elements and their often poetic prose.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781316630808
• ISBN-10: 1316630803
• Artikelnr.: 48326510

Autorenporträt

George Levine is Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey and has published broadly on Victorian topics, including authoring Darwin and the Novelists (1988), How to Read the Victorian Novel (2007) and the award-winning Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge, 2008). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge, 2001) and was co-editor of the journal Victorian Studies in its early years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Shaping Hardy's art: vision, class, and sex
2. Hardy and Darwin: an enchanting Hardy?
3. The Mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real
Interlude: Jude and the power of art
4. From mindless matter to the art of the mind: The Well-Beloved
5. The poetry of the novels.