Thomas Hardy

In Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts distinguished critics from Canada, Japan, the USA and the UK, offer fresh and challenging readings of Hardy's works. They also raise far wider and far-reaching questions about Hardy's attitude to his art, his relation to such contemporary forms as melodrama, and his response to the ongoing scientific debates, from Darwin to Einstein, about sexuality, personal identity, the meaning of suicide and the nature of time.

'...an extremely interesting collection of essays, partly because of the authors' different perspectives and backgrounds.' - Stephen Frederic Dale, Biography

'The volume's scholarship is uniformly excellent...' - R.D. Morrison, Choice

Autorentext
GILLIAN BEER King Edward VII Professor of English, University of Cambridge PAMELA DALZIEL Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada JOHN R. DOHENY Professor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia, Canada MICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English, University of Kent MICHAEL MILLGATE Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toronto RICHARD NEMESVARI Associate Professor, St Francis Xavier University, ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, University of Exeter TORU SASAKI Associate Professor of English, Kyoto University, Japan LINDA SHIRES Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University SALLY SHUTTLEWORTH Professor of English, University of Sheffield

Inhalt
Preface Notes on the Contributors Seen in a New Light: Irradiation and Illumination in Hardy; M.Irwin Hardy: the After-Life and the Life Before; G.Beer 'And I was Unaware': The Unknowing Omniscience of Hardy's Narrators; L.Shires A Laodicean as a Novel of Ingenuity; T.Sasaki Whatever Happened to Elizabeth-Jane? Revisioning Gender in The Mayor of Casterbridge; P.Dalziel 'The Thing Must Be a Male, we Suppose': Erotic Triangles in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Billy Budd; R.Nemesvari The Characterization of Jude and Sue: The Myth and the Reality; J.R.Doheny 'Done because we are too menny': Little Father Time and Child Suicide in Late-Victorian Culture; S.Shuttleworth Hardy and Biology; A.Richardson The Hunter-Gatherers: Some Early Hardy Scholars and Collectors; M.Millgate Index