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New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy

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  • © 1994

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  1. Charles P. C. Pettit

    1. Department of Leisure and Arts, Oxfordshire County Council’s, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Characteristic of all Great Poetry — The General Perfectly Reduced in the Particular’: Thomas Hardy

    • James Gibson
    Pages 1-15

  3. ‘Something More to be Said’: Hardy’s Creative Process and the Case of Tess and Jude

    • Peter J. Casagrande
    Pages 16-40

  4. Hardy and the City

    • Michael Slater
    Pages 41-57

  5. Thoroughfares of Stones’: Hardy’s ‘Other’ Love Poetry

    • Trevor Johnson
    Pages 58-79

  6. ‘Moments of Vision”: Postmodernising Tess of the d’Urbervilles; or, Tess of the d’Urbervilles Faithfully Presented

    • Peter Widdowson
    Pages 80-100

  7. ‘Bosh’ or: Believing neither More nor Less — Hardy, George Eliot and God

    • Lance St John Butler
    Pages 101-116

  8. ‘Good Faith, You do Talk!’: Some Features of Hardy’s Dialogue

    • Raymond Chapman
    Pages 117-136

  9. ‘A Bewildered Child and his Conjurors’: Hardy and the Ideas of his Time

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 137-155

  10. Conscious Artistry in The Mayor of Casterbridge

    • Craig Raine
    Pages 156-171

  11. Hardy’s Vision of the Individual in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

    • Charles P. C. Pettit
    Pages 172-190

  12. Questions Arising from Hardy’s Visits to Cornwall

    • F. B. Pinion
    Pages 191-208

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 209-213
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New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars. The essays range widely over Hardy's work, thought, creative methods and life, and show a variety of critical approaches. The essays collected here will appeal equally to scholars, students and non-academic Hardy enthusiasts.

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  • Department of Leisure and Arts, Oxfordshire County Council’s, UK

    Charles P. C. Pettit

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