Thomas Hardy Resource Centre
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Featured titles
Palgrave Advances in Hardy Studies
Phillip Mallet
This book explores the key issues in the ongoing and lively debate
about Thomas Hardy's work as a novelist and poet. In twelve
newly-commissioned essays, distinguished scholars from both sides of
the Atlantic review, take issue with and take forward the most recent
and significant research on Thomas Hardy.
‘In short, this collection is worth the money to anyone who admires Hardy.' - Professor Dale Kramer, University of Oregon (and Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy)
April 2004
Hardback £55.00 1403902577
Paperback £16.99 1403902585
Part of the Palgrave Advances series
Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies
Tim Dolin and Peter Widdowson
This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics. The essays reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.
'The excellence of this collection lies in its achieving its two central aims: to provide 'theoretical demonstrations' - examples or models of reading Hardy's stories and poems in light of a variety of critical theories - and, while doing so, to analyze important characteristic features of the stories and poems. The result is a series of always lucid, frequently brilliant, essays by well-known English, Australian, and American writers.’ - Dale Kramer, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Illinois
April 2004
Hardback £45.00 0333994450
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Scholarly criticism
Thomas Hardy’s Vision of Wessex
Simon Gatrell
'...brings Gatrell's formidable knowledge of Hardy's textual history to bear on the region's imaginative evolution.'
- Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement
Visit the author’s website at www.english.uga.edu/wessex
November 2003
Hardback £50.00 0333748344
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Social Transformations in Hardy’s Tragic Novels
Megamachines and Phantasms
David Musselwhite
September 2003
Hardback £45.00 1403916624
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Hardy and His Readers
T. R. Wright
'...Wright's book registers with particular force how the novelist's "uneasy relationship with his contemporary audience... left permanent traces in his text"... [Wright] makes an absorbing case for a novelist both alert to and critically engaged with the conventions of his form, one whose habitual medium was less a faithful mirror than a refracting glass.'
- Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement
April 2003
Hardback £47.50 0333962605
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Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts
Phillip Mallet
Hardy’s Geography
Wessex and the Regional
Ralph Pite
Ambivalence in Hardy
Shanta Dutta
Reading Hardy’s Landscapes
Michael Irwin
Haunted Hardy
Poetry, History, Memory
Tim Armstrong
Textbooks
Thomas Hardy: The Novels
Norman Page
'...virtuoso examples of what close textual analysis can achieve in his sophisticated, detailed, and precisely articulated examinations...'
- Choice
A detailed and practical guide to the analysis of Thomas Hardy's technique and style through close consideration of extracts from four major novels: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.
Paperback £12.99 0333716175
Hardback £40.00 0333914368
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Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Geoffrey Harvey
'I continue to find the Readers' Guides indispensable for teaching - they really give students a sense of criticism having a history'
- Professor Rachel Bowlby, University of York
'The series looks really excellent - attractively produced, user friendly; and outstanding value for money' - Ronald Knowles, Reader, University of Reading
Paperback £11.99 1840461748
Part of the Reader’s Guides to Essential Criticism series
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
Thomas Hardy and James Gibson
'Don't order a selection at all if you can get the Complete Poems.'
- Professor William Morgan, State University of Illinois
Includes all of Hardy's prolific output of more than nine hundred poems, complemented by a detailed notes section. Collected in this single volume are his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, 'Domicilium' and the songs from The Dynasts. This new edition contains an additional poem, The Sound of Her.
Paperback £15.99 0333949293
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Far From the Madding Crowd
Paperback £3.00 0330344676
Jude the Obscure
Paperback £3.00 0330344714
Trumpet Major
Paperback £3.00 0330344722
New Wessex Selection of Thomas Hardy’s Poetry
Paperback £4.99 0333516265
Desperate Remedies
Hand of Ethelberta
Two on a Tower
Useful Websites
The Thomas Hardy Society
http://www.hardysociety.org
Thomas Hardy Society of North America
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
Talking to Thomas Hardy
http://www.talkingto.co.uk/ttth/
The Victorian Web: Thomas Hardy
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/hardyov.html
Today in Literature: Thomas Hardy
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/thomas.hardy.asp
Thomas Hardy Country: A Photographic Tour
http://members.aol.com/thardy1001
