The Hidden Hardy
Published on 11. September 1992
Book
Hardback
X, 205 pages
978-0-312-05787-9 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels. Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, masking hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic and cultural structures.
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Edition
1992 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
X, 205 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-05787-9 (9780312057879)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22156-1
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joe Fisher
The Hidden Hardy
Book
07/1992
Palgrave Macmillan
€203.29
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Content
Acknowledgements - Introduction: Hardy and the Conjurors - Desperate Remedies (1871): Making the Trojan Horse - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia - The Hand of Ethelberta (1875): The Writer's Contract - The Return of the Native (1878): Anarchy and Tragedy - A Laodicean (1881): The End of Laodiceanism - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886): Civilisation and the Field - The Woodlanders (1887): Growth and Self-Destruction - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891): Reformation or G tterd mmerung? - Jude the Obscure (1895): The Ultimate Satire - Afterword - Index