Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction

Autor University of London) Gilmartin, Professor Sophie (Royal Holloway, University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge University of Cambridge) Mengham, Reader in Modern English Literature Rod (University of Cambridge Jesus College

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2016 – vârsta de la 22 ani

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.

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