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A Companion to Thomas Hardy
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9781405156684
Umbreit-Nr.: 1626283
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 504 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 27.03.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeNotes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Keith Wilson (University of Ottawa). Part I: The Life: Part II: The Intellectual Context: Part III: The Socio-Cultural Context: Part IV: The Works: Part V: Hardy the Modern: Index
- Kurztext
- A Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy's work by thirty of the world's most distinguished Hardy scholars. Groundbreaking insights are revealed through examinations of his novels, short stories, poetry, and the often neglected epic-drama, The Dynasts, that Hardy, like many of his contemporaries, considered to be his major achievement. The Companion provides an influential re-assessment of Hardy's place in both Victorian and Modern literature, with essays that consider his complexity as a biographical subject, probe his ideas and attitudes in relation to their socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical contexts, analyze his distinctive achievements in the remarkable variety of genres in which he worked, and assess his legacy for subsequent modernist writers. Comprehensive and authoritative, A Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an unparalleled range of contemporary scholarship on an author whose transitional position between the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries makes him central to the study of both. This Companion provides a seamless overview of the entirety of Hardy's oeuvre, through historical contextualization and analysis of key works.
- Autorenportrait
- Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Thomas Hardy on Stage (1995), editor of the Penguin Classics editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge (1997; 2003) and The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (2003, with Kristin Brady), and editor of Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (2006). He has also published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, Victorian and Edwardian music hall, and the literary representation of London.