The Achievement of Thomas Hardy
'Now there is a clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first'. - Ezra Pound. The essays collected here range widely over Hardy's career as both a novelist and a lyric poet. They offer fresh reading of individual works - including his la
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Also by Phillip Mallett KIPLING CONSIDERED (editor) RUDYARD KIPLING: LIMITS AND RENEWALS (editor) A SPACIOUS VISION: Essays on Thomas Hardy (editor) SATIRE (editor) THOMAS HARDY: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (editor)
The Achievement of Thomas Hardy Edited by
Phillip Mallett
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Contents Preface by Phillip Mallett
viii
Notes on the Contributors
xvi
1 Merely a Good Hand at a Serial? from A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far from the Madding Crowd Charles P. C. Pettit
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2 Geology, Genealogy and Church Restoration in Hardy's Writing Sophie Gilmartin
22
3 'Gifted, even in November': the Meanings of The Well-Beloved Michael Irwin
41
4 A Feast of Language: Hardy's Allusions Mary Rimmer
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5 'As near to poetry as the conditions would allow': the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels William Morgan
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6 Hardy's Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View Timothy Hands
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Wessex Poems, 1898 James Gibson
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8 The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy Danny Karlin
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9 Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art: the Poems and Short Stories Douglas Dunn
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10 Noticing Things: Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature' Phillip Mallett
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11 Redis
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