Thomas Hardy's Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose [Hardcover]

Thomas Hardy (Author), Michael Millgate (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2001 | ISBN-10: 019818526X | ISBN-13: 978-0198185260

Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people. What the present volume reveals is that Hardy's public utterances, addressed to a wide range of literary, social, and political issues, were far more numerous and various than has previously been imagined. His essays, speeches, and other acknowledged pieces, both formal and informal, are here fully described, edited, and annotated, together with the letters he wrote to newspapers and the many unsigned items, from obituaries to clandestine contributions to literary gossip-columns, that have now been securely or tentatively identified.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"An invaluable addition to the outstanding body of scholarship that Michael Millgate has contributed to Hardy studies.... Organized into clear chronological sequence, annotated with the meticulousness and understated wit characteristic of all Millgate's editorial work, and presented with the same typographical elegance that Clarendon Press brought to the Collected Letters, this book is a tribute to both its subject and its conceiver.... At once an essential reference tool for every Hardy scholar and a delight for the general Hardy enthusiast."--English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

About the Author

Michael Millgate is a highly distinguished Hardyan, whose many scholarly works include Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1972); the acclaimed life Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Oxford, 1982); estamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy (Oxford, 1992); [with Richard L. Purdy] editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (7 volumes, Oxford 1978-88); editor of Thomas Hardy: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990) and Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy (Oxford 1996).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019818526X
• ISBN-13: 978-0198185260
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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