LEADER 04847nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910139763603321 005 20240513092159.0 010 $a1-118-39853-X 010 $a1-118-39851-3 010 $a1-78268-497-2 010 $a1-282-84947-6 010 $a9786612849473 010 $a1-118-30748-8 010 $a1-4443-3149-3 010 $a1-4443-2421-7 010 $a1-4443-2422-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793022 035 $a(EBL)624804 035 $a(OCoLC)671648464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414487 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414487 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409070 035 $a(PQKB)10059749 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676002 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12271758 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676002 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10677855 035 $a(PQKB)10510070 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC624804 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4034836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL624804 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577681 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793022 100 $a20081104d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to Thomas Hardy /$fedited by Keith Wilson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford $cWiley-Blackwell Pub.$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (488 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v61 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-30749-6 311 $a1-4051-5668-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Companion to Thomas Hardy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: The Life; 1: Hardy as Biographical Subject; PART II: The Intellectual Context; 2: Hardy and Philosophy; 3: Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy?; 4: Hardy and the Place of Culture; 5: "The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious": Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years; 6: Thomas Hardy's Notebooks; 7: "Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them": Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy's Fiction; 8: Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices 327 $aPART III: The Socio-Cultural Context9: "His Country": Hardy in the Rural; 10: Thomas Hardy of London; 11: "A Thickness of Wall": Hardy and Class; 12: Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd; 13: Hardy and Romantic Love; 14: Hardy and the Visual Arts; 15: Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds; PART IV: The Works; 16: The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd; 17: "Wild Regions of Obscurity": Narrative in The Return of the Native 327 $a18: Hardy's "Novels of Ingenuity" Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances19: Hardy's "Romances and Fantasies" A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction; 20: The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge; 21: Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders; 22: Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity :Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 23: Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 327 $a24: ". . . into the hands of pure-minded English girls": Hardy's Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace25: Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry; 26: Hardy's Poems: The Scholarly Situation; 27: That's Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts; 28: Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge; 29: Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics; 30: Hardy's Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys; Index 330 $aThrough original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetryInformed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholarsReveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy's major novels, short stories, poetry, and dramaExplores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v61. 606 $aPastoral literature, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPastoral literature, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.8 701 $aWilson$b Keith$g(Keith G.)$0745927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139763603321 996 $aA companion to Thomas Hardy$92034421 997 $aUNINA