Download or read book Ambivalence in Hardy written by S. Dutta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women: apologist or misogynist? With the help of manuscript evidence and references to Hardy's autobiography, letters, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his wives, this book combines a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his contemporary women writers, his protégées and his two 'scribbling' wives, to balance the hitherto exclusive focus on the 'major' novels.
Download or read book Ambivalence in Hardy written by Shanta Dutta and published by Anthem Nineteenth-Century. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Thomas Hardy a misogynist or a subscriber to the feminist cause? Ambivalence in Hardy' explores Hardy's complex and deeply ambivalent attitude to women, both in his fiction and in his life. While his sympathy for wronged and exploited women is forcefully expressed, his writings also reveal his fears, uncertainties, reservations and tensions - the natural inheritance of patriarchal ideology and a predominantly male literary tradition. The author analyses one 'minor' and one 'major' text from each of the three decades of Hardy's career as a prose fiction writer. The 1870s are represented by The Hand of Ethelberta' and The Return of the Native', the 1880s by Two on a Tower' and The Woodlanders', and the 1890s by Hardy's short stories and Jude the Obscure'. Generous references to Hardy's letters, disguised autobiography, literary notebooks, marginalia and the letters of his two wives seek to blend a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Parallelisms between Hardy's fiction and that of contemporary feminist writers are explored, suggesting mutual literary influence. His relations with women writers - particularly his prot g es and 'scribbling' wives - are discussed in unprecedented detail. Ambivalence in Hardy' significantly contributes to and challenges the field of Hardy studies.
Download or read book Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Galia Ofek and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a wide range of historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical works, Galia Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her innovative study reveals the Victorians' well-developed awareness of fetishism and their cognizance of hair's symbolic resonance and commercial value.
Download or read book Tess of the d Urbervilles Second Edition written by Thomas Hardy and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervilles. They encourage their innocent daughter Tess to cement a connection with the d'Urberville family, including their unprincipled son Alec, with tragic consequences. "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," as Hardy subtitled the novel, represented a direct challenge to conventional Victorian notions of sexuality and femininity. This is a revised, updated, and expanded Broadview edition that highlights a feminist interpretation of the novel in an extensive introduction. The range of historical appendices (including contemporary articles, letters, maps, news stories, and reviews) will greatly enhance a reader's understanding of the text.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies written by P. Mallett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies explores the key issues in the ongoing and lively debate about Thomas Hardy's work as a novelist and poet. In twelve newly-commissioned essays, distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic review, take issue with and take forward the most recent and significant research on Thomas Hardy.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy Distracted Preacher written by Timothy R. Hands and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estudios de filolog a inglesa written by Josephine Bregazzi and published by Editorial Complutense. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Novel Universe written by Pamela Gossin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical tools of both disciplines to bear as she offers unexpected and sophisticated readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work, extend formalist evaluations of his achievement as a writer, and provide fresh interpretations of enigmatic passages and scenes. In an elegantly crafted introduction, Gossin draws together the shared critical values and methods of literary studies and the history of science to articulate a hybrid model of scholarly interpretation and analysis that promotes cross-disciplinary compassion and understanding within the current contention of the science/culture wars. She then situates Hardy's own deeply interdisciplinary knowledge of astronomy and cosmology within both literary and scientific traditions, from the ancient world through the Victorian era. Gossin offers insightful new assessments of A Pair of Blue Eyes, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, Two on a Tower, The Woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure, arguing that Hardy's personal synthesis of ancient and modern astronomy with mythopoetic and scientific cosmologies enabled him to write as a literary cosmologist for the post-Darwinian world. The profound new myths that comprise Hardy's novel universe can be read as a sustained set of literary thought-experiments by which he critiques the possibilities, limitations, and dangers of living out the storylines that such imaginative cosmologies project for his time - and ours.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Short Stories written by Juliette Berning Schaefer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Patriarchy and Its Discontents written by Joanna Devereux and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Literary Tourism and Nineteenth Century Culture written by N. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.
Download or read book Modernist Empathy written by Eve C. Sorum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how reading modernist literature gives us fresh insights into tensions within the empathetic imagination and empathy itself.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Ralph Pite and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to guard his privacy.
Download or read book Hardy s Lyrics written by B. Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy frequently insisted that his poems were not self-expressive, but dramatic or 'impersonative'. Yet biographical expositions have dulled their impersonality. Brian Green's approach is more exacting and rewarding; taking Hardy at his word, he traces Hardy's 'master theme' throughout the corpus of poems - a governing concern which merges Victorian and perennial ideas throughout the whole of Hardy's writings.
Download or read book Sex in Mind written by Rachel Ann Malane and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Thomas Hardy, Malane analyzes how these narratives of love, insanity, and tragedy were in dynamic conversation with the prevailing views about the brain."--Jacket.
Download or read book Seeing Hardy written by Paul J. Niemeyer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great authors" are increasingly being encountered by general audiences and critics thanks to films and television programs that have been adapted from their best-known works. Thomas Hardy is one of those authors. His work has inspired filmmakers from the silent age and modern times. This book is the first book-length study in what has become a growing field of interest in film adaptations of Hardy's novels. Part One of this book analyzes the popular image of Hardy and his work, the reproduction of this image in film adaptations, and critical stereotypes about him and his fiction. Part Two juxtaposes Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and Schlesinger's adaptation, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Polanski's adaptation, and Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Winterbottom's adaptation. Each discussion of the novel and adaptation in question considers the novel itself, the critical history of the novel, how it has been adapted to film, and how the individual filmmakers have struggled with problems inherent in Hardy's novels. Part Three analyzes adaptations of The Woodlanders, The Scarlet Tunic, and The Claim, all of which have scarcely been seen in the United States or which were not distributed in the United States, and four television movies and miniseries that were based on Hardy's work.
Download or read book The Thomas Hardy Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
