Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Title | Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Gilmartin |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2007-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748632557 |
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Selected Short Stories
Title | Selected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781853261787 |
This selection was the third that Hardy collected together himself for publication as a single volume. It reflects the experiences of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The stories are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage.
Short Stories of Thomas Hardy
Title | Short Stories of Thomas Hardy PDF eBook |
Author | Kristin Brady |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1984-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349074020 |
Thomas Hardy's Short Stories
Title | Thomas Hardy's Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Juliette Berning Schaefer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317010418 |
Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.
Thomas Hardy's Short Stories
Title | Thomas Hardy's Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Juliette Berning Schaefer |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317010426 |
Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.
An Imaginative Woman
Title | An Imaginative Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Total Pages | 37 |
Release | 2022-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
Collected Short Stories
Title | Collected Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 936 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780333482681 |