Thomas Hardy His Career As a Novelist

Name: Thomas Hardy His Career As a Novelist
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ISBN: 9780333623169

ISBN-10: 0333623169

ISBN-13: 9780333623169

Edition: 11th 1994

Authors: Michael Millgate

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'...a beautiful wrought study that belongs in every good library'. Publishers' Weekly '...remains a major contribution to Hardy studies' - Charles Osborne, Sunday Telegraph Originally published in 1971 and now for the first time reprinted, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist has long been recognized as a major - and exceptionally well-written - work of Hardy criticism that also set new standards for Hardy scholarship. A recent survey refers to it as 'one of the most permanently useful' of Hardy studies, characterized by an 'admirably clear, unpretentious style'. Although the central chapters are predominantly critical, offering independent readings of each of the novels (including those…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Edition: 11th
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 6/9/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Michael Millgate is University Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toronto.



Preface to 1994 Reissue


Preface


Prelude


The Poor Man and the Lady



Apprenticeship


Desperate Remedies


'Ce Saxon autodidacte': A Matter of Education


Under the Greenwood Tree


Bockhampton and St Juliot: The Exploitation of Autobiography


A Pair of Blue Eyes



Achievement


Far from the Madding Crowd


Puddletown into Weatherbury


The Genesis of Wessex


The Hand of Ethelberta


On Native Grounds



The Return of the Native



Recession


The Trumpet-Major


The Uses of a Regional Past


A Laodicean


Hardy's Laodiceanism: Politics and Ideas


Two on a Tower



Renewal


Max Gate


'The Dorsetshire Labourer'


The Mayor of Casterbridge


The Evolution of Wessex


The Woodlanders



Fulfilment


Tess of the d'Urbervilles


Candour in English Fiction


The Well-Beloved


Hardy and the Theatre


Jude the Obscure -


Afterword


The End of Prose


Notes


Index