Dale Kramer (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

Herausgeber: Kramer, Dale

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521566926
• ISBN-10: 0521566924
• Artikelnr.: 21958182

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Preface
A chronology of Hardy's life and publications
List of abbreviations and texts
1. Thomas Hardy: the biographical sources Michael Millgate
2. Wessex Simon Gatrell
3. Art and aesthetics Norman Page
4. The influence of religion, science and philosophy on Hardy's writings Robert Schweik
5. Hardy and critical theory Peter Widdowson
6. Thomas Hardy and matters of gender Kristin Brady
7. Variants on genre: The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Hand of Ethelberta Jakob Lothe
8. The patriarchy of class: Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders Penny Boumelha
9. The radical aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles Linda M. Shires
10. Hardy and readers: Jude the Obscure Dale Kramer
11. Hardy as a nineteenth-century poet Dennis Taylor
12. The modernity of Thomas Hardy's poetry John Paul Riquelme
Index.