Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens &c." Notebook [Hardcover]

Thomas Hardy (Author), Pamela Dalziel (Editor), Michael Millgate (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 24, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0198117574 | ISBN-13: 978-0198117575

Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens &c." notebook, dating from the mid-1860s, preserves unique evidence of the studies of other writers and the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques by which he so deliberately sought to make himself into a poet at the very beginning of his literary career. This edition presents the manuscript in quasi-facsimile, with full annotation of Hardy's sources, allusions, and intentions, as far as they can be interpreted.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A carefully prepared edition of a rare Hardy notebook....Of great value to Hardy scholars."--Nineteenth-Century Literature

"A suberb scholarly edition of this very important record of Hardy's early literary efforts has been prepared by Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate....An invaluable guide through this thicket of Hardy's uses of quotation and personal amplification by identifying the source of each discoverable quotation-even the actual copy of the book Hardy used-and carefully discriminating Hardy's quotations from his own comments and experimental variations....This fine exemplar of meticulous editing makes it an appropriate memorial to a scholar whose work exhibited that combination of wide-ranging scholarship and scrupulous care for detail they have lavished on it."--English Literature in Transition

About the Author

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England's greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England. Pamela Dalziel is at University of British Columbia. Michael Millgate is at University of Toronto.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 24, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198117574
• ISBN-13: 978-0198117575
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,057,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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