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Thomas Hardy

His Career as a Novelist

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  • © 1994

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  1. Michael Millgate
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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-13
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  2. Prelude The Poor Man and the Lady

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Poor Man and the Lady

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 17-25

  3. Apprenticeship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Desperate Remedies

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 29-35

    3. “Ce Saxon autodidacte”: A Matter of Education

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 36-41

    4. Under the Greenwood Tree

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 42-54

    5. Bockhampton and St Juliot: The Exploitation of Autobiography

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 55-65

    6. A Pair of Blue Eyes

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 66-76

  4. Achievement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Far from the Madding Crowd

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 79-94

    3. Puddletown into Weatherbury: The Genesis of Wessex

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 95-104

    4. The Hand of Ethelberta

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 105-116

    5. On Native Grounds: Charles Kegan Paul and William Barnes

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 117-129

    6. The Return of the Native

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 130-144

  5. Recession

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Trumpet-Major

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 147-156

    3. The Uses of a Regional Past

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 157-164

    4. A Laodicean

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 165-173

    5. Politics and Ideas: Hardy’s Laodiceanism

      • Michael Millgate
      Pages 174-182
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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 customarily considered 'minor'), those readings are developed within the context of available knowledge of Hardy's personal and intellectual backgrounds, his friendships and family relationships, and his evolution as a professional writer. Extensive use is made of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks, nd letters and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him, and in a new preface Michael Millgate speaks of having sought to resolve 'the standard work/life dichotomy' by pursuing 'the unitary conception of a career'.

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