This book re-examines the critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women: apologist or misogynist? With the help of manuscript evidence and references to Hardy's autobiography, letters, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his wives, this book combines a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his contemporary women writers, his protégées and his two 'scribbling' wives, to balance the hitherto exclusive focus on the 'major' novels.

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...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice

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Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

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Book Title: Ambivalence in Hardy
Book Subtitle: A Study of his Attitude Towards Women
Authors: Shanta Dutta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378346
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22183-6Published: 01 September 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37834-6Published: 30 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 256
Topics: Fiction, Gender Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature

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