Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction : : A Critical Study / / Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham.
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Gilmartin, Sophie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction : A Critical Study / Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2007 1 online resource (160 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Note -- 1 Wessex Tales -- 2 A Group of Noble Dames -- 3 Life’s Little Ironies -- 4 A Changed Man -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691173','ISBN: 9780748632558','ISBN: 9780748632657']);This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry.Key FeaturesThe only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories.The provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close readings of a number of key stories enhances the book's attractiveness as a potential teaching resource.Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex.Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Short story. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Mengham, Rod, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748632657 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748632558?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748632558 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748632558/original |
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