A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Neuausgabe 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5668-4
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry

* Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars

* Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy's major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama

* Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Keith Wilson (University of Ottawa).

Part I: The Life:

Part II: The Intellectual Context:

Part III: The Socio-Cultural Context:

Part IV: The Works:

Part V: Hardy the Modern:

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Thomas Hardy on Stage (1995), editor of the Penguin Classics editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge (1997; 2003) and The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (2003, with Kristin Brady), and editor of Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (2006). He has also published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, Victorian and Edwardian music hall, and the literary representation of London.