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- ISBN 9781474407632
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Provides a comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short stories
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 Features
The only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short storiesThe provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close readings of a number of key stories enhances the book’s attractiveness as a potential teaching resourceDraws 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 WessexOffers 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
Sophie Gilmartin is Reader in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Rod Mengham is Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge where he is a Fellow in English and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College. He is the author of books on Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Henry Green and The Descent of Language. He has edited or co-edited three collections of essays on contemporary fiction, two collections on Australian poetry, and single volumes on the fiction of th 1940s, and on violence and avant-garde art.
