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Thomas Hardy

  • Textbook
  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Timothy Hands
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Part of the book series: Writers in their Time (WRTI)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. ‘I lived in quiet, screened,unknown’: The Lives of Thomas Hardy

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 1-31

  3. ‘Nearest neighbours closest friends’: Hardy and the Romantics

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 32-59

  4. ‘Fellow earth-men surge and strive’: Hardy and Contemporary Society

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 60-92

  5. ‘Yea, Great and Good, Thee, Thee we hail’: Hardy and the Ideas of his Time

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 93-122

  6. ‘How shall we ply, then, / Our old mysteries?’ Hardy and the Other Arts

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 123-155

  7. ‘Time / Part steals, lets part abide’: The Critics of Thomas Hardy

    • Timothy Hands
    Pages 156-188

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 189-209
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About this book

Thomas Hardy made a reputation in more than one genre and in more than one period, and he has constantly given rise to widely differing critical responses. This study ranges in time from Hardy's response to Romanticism through to an examination of his diverse fortunes at the hands of critics from Hardy's own time to the present day. His achievement is examined through his various forms - his letters, autobiography, novels, poems and personal writings - and set in the context of the work of those whom he knew or admired. Timothy Hands surveys Hardy's ideas, his views on society and his remarkable knowledge of the contemporary arts. The book offers to specialist, student and general reader alike an authoritative yet readable guide through the biographical, literary and critical mazes surrounding Hardy's life and work.

About the author

Timothy Hands is Housemaster at King's School, Canterbury.

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