Julian Wolfreys

Thomas Hardy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137120434
• Artikelnr.: 62722029

Autorenporträt

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Associate Professor in the department of English at the University of Florida, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and a Note on the Text.- Aknowedgements.- Introduction: Dwelling on Hardy.- Apprehension, Suspension, Abstention: Desperate Remedies (1871).- Distortions and Transformations: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873).- Being and Dwelling: Far From the Madding Crowd (1874),The Return of the Native (1878) and Two on a Tower (1882).- Uncommon Events: The Trumpet Major (1880), A Laodicean (1881) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886).- Confessions of the Other:The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895).- Afterword.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.