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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826836603321

Titolo

Thomas Hardy reappraised : essays in honour of Michael Millgate / / edited by Keith Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4426-5954-8

1-4426-5748-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gospel according to Hardy / Pamela Dalziel -- 'My scripture manner' : reading Hardy's biblical and liturgical allusion / Mary Rimmer -- Hardy and Hamlet / Dennis Taylor -- Literary allusion : Hardy and other poets / Barbara Hardy -- Hardy's subterranean child / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Written in stone : Hardy's grotesque sublime / Marjorie Garson -- Erotics of dress in A Pair of Blue Eyes / Simon Gatrell -- Hardy's Rural Painting of the Dutch School / Ruth Bernard Yeazell -- Individual and community in The Return of the Native : a reappraisal / J. Hillis Miller -- The Woodlanders and the Darwinian grotesque / George Levine -- Plato and the love goddess : paganism in two versions of The Well-Beloved / Jeremy V. Steele -- Aesthetics and thematics in Hardy's volume of verse : the example of Time's Laughingstocks / William W. Morgan -- Hardy and the battle god / Samuel Hynes -- Opening time : Hardy's poetic thresholds / Norman Page -- Thomas Hardy and the Powyses / W.J. Keith.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent. Hardy scholars. These essays address questions of biblical and literary allusiveness, cultural, historical, and philosophical context, narrative and poetic theory and practice, as well as Hardy's place in the modern world and his influence



on younger writers. Together, the contributors offer one of the most significant reappraisals of Hardy's work to have appeared since Michael Millgate helped to transform Hardy studies. They offer graphic testimony to Hardy's enduring popularity and importance."--Jacket.