This work's ruling assumption is that Hardy was - from the outset of his admirably sustained career as novelist and poet - intent on creative mischief-making. It makes clear how Hardy was an outwardly conforming writer with a smuggled cargo of cultural dissent. Its critical perspectives also show how Hardy's approach to representation takes him beyond realism, revealing the psychological undercurrents which render his writing "darkly, deliciously disturbing". With its critical sophistication, this book also ranges widely, re-presenting Hardy's major novels as well as most of those unfairly considered minor, while also considering Hardy's haunted and haunting poetry. Some film and TV versions of his novels are also examined, with special reference to the pitfalls of adaptation.
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It is still quite widely assumed that Hardy, a sadder and a wiser man after his first work failed to win acceptance by a publisher, humbly recanted and reverted to type-or rather, what we take his type to be. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Thomas Hardy, Oxford Univ, New York, The Woodlanders, Sir Blount, Lady Constantine, Matthew Arnold, The Return of the Native, Poetical Works, The Hand of Ethelberta, Pair of Blue Eyes, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Wallace Stevens, Clarendon Press, Jane Austen, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Cambridge Univ, Basil Blackwell, Captain De Stancy, Complete Poems, Christopher Julian, Literary Theory, Miss Aldcliffe, Selected Poems New!
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It is still quite widely assumed that Hardy, a sadder and a wiser man after his first work failed to win acceptance by a publisher, humbly recanted and reverted to type-or rather, what we take his type to be. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
differences without positive terms, desperate remedies, rustic life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Hardy, Oxford Univ, New York, The Woodlanders, Sir Blount, Lady Constantine, Matthew Arnold, The Return of the Native, Poetical Works, The Hand of Ethelberta, Pair of Blue Eyes, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Wallace Stevens, Clarendon Press, Jane Austen, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Cambridge Univ, Basil Blackwell, Captain De Stancy, Complete Poems, Christopher Julian, Literary Theory, Miss Aldcliffe, Selected Poems New!
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- Desperate Remedies (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 12 pages
- A Pair Of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy on 10 pages
- Under the Greenwood Tree (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 10 pages
- The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 9 pages
- The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy on 9 pages
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