Tess of the D'Ubervilles/the Mayor of Casterbridge/Far from the Madding Crowd - Couverture rigide

Hardy, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0753705192 ISBN 13 : 9780753705193

Editeur : Bounty Books, 2001

Synopsis

During the journey to adulthood, Thomas Hardy experienced a loss of faith which coloured his future philosophy with the maxim that humans are at the mercy of indifferent forces. This was emphasised by the gradual erosion of rural life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspection's, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude. The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds. Altogether the study is a lucid and accessible introduction, which locates Hardy's place in the tradition of English literature.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Thomas Hardy, (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. He gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) In this book: Tess of the d'Urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd The Mayor of Casterbridge

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bounty Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753705192
• ISBN 13: 9780753705193
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 736
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible