Peter Widdowson

On Thomas Hardy (eBook, PDF)

Late Essays and Earlier

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The author, a leading and influential critic of Thomas Hardy, brings together for the first time essays representing both his major critical work over the last fifteen years and three entirely new pieces. This volume allows readers to test the force of Widdowson's critical polemic in undispersed form. Readable, engaged and, no doubt, often infuriating, this is a book for all those who still regard Hardy as 'our contemporary'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349262793
• Artikelnr.: 54792037

Autorenporträt

PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Thomas Hardy: a Partial Portrait
Hardy in History: a Case-study in the Sociology of Literature
Hardy and Social Class: The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy's 'Quite Worthless' Novel: A Laodicean
'Moments of Vision: Post-modernising Tess of the d'Urbervilles: or Tess of
the d'Urbervilles Faithfully Presented by Peter Widdowson
Recasting Hardy the Poet
Arabella and the Satirical Discourse in Jude the Obscure
Postscript: The Film of Jude
Notes
References
Index.