Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner

Name: Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner
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ISBN: 9780674737891

ISBN-10: 067473789X

ISBN-13: 9780674737891

Edition: 2016

Authors: Mark Ford

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Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and his achievement as a writer. Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner presents a detailed account of Hardyï¿½e(tm)s London experiences, from his arrival as a shy, impressionable youth, to his embrace of radical views, to his lionization by upper-class hostesses…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/10/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Mark Ford is a poet and Professor of English at University College London.