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| Author | : R. Nemesvari |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2011-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230118844 |
The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'
| Author | : R. Nemesvari |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2011-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230118844 |
The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.'
| Author | : Anna West |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2017-04-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131683431X |
Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.
| Author | : Aaron Rosenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2023-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1009271822 |
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
| Author | : Mark Ford |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2016-10-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 067473789X |
Acknowledgements -- Index
| Author | : Maia McAleavey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2015-05-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107103169 |
This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
| Author | : Karin Koehler |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2016-05-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319291025 |
This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication.
| Author | : Trish Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-08-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748673253 |
Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre's engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.
| Author | : Juliette Berning Schaefer |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2016-11-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317010426 |
Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.
| Author | : Jane Thomas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2013-03-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137305061 |
Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.
