Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael MillgateKeith Wilson As a writer who achieved major eminence in both fiction and poetry and whose engagement with these genres encompassed the period of transition from Victorianism to Modernism, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) enjoys a unique position in English Literary History. Michael Millgate, University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Toronto is widely recognized as the world's foremost Thomas Hardy scholar. His contributions to the study of Hardy over more than three decades include his recently 'revisited' biography, the seven volume edition of Hardy's collected letters, and the influential critical study Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist. In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars. These essays address questions of biblical and literary allusiveness, cultural, historical, and philosophical context, narrative and poetic theory and practice, as well as Hardy's place in the modern world and his influence on younger writers. Together, the contributors offer one of the most significant reappraisals of Hardy's work to have appeared since Michael Millgate helped to transform Hardy studies. They offer graphic testimony to Hardy's enduring popularity and importance. Contributors: |
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... Grotesque Sublime 96 marjorie garson 7 The Erotics of Dress in A Pair of Blue Eyes 118 simon gatrell 8 Hardy's Rural Painting of the Dutch School 136 ruth bernard yeazelL 9 Individual and Community in The Return of the Native:
... eye for those more charged referential convergences when originary text and Hardy's reformulation generate 'a participation in ritual.' After consideration of these scriptural and literary presences, the collection moves to engagement ...
... Eyes' also considers the rendering of bodily identity in Hardy's writing, as mediated through the iconography of clothing. While scholarship in the field of material culture has recently been addressing the social and psychological ...
... eyes,' but never 'what they might have called him much more plausibly – churchy; not in an intellectual sense, but in so far as instincts and emotions ruled' (LW, 407). Hardy's instinctual and emotional 'churchiness' has in fact been ...
... eye get off Jesus. – I did hear a whisper that you had begun to think that works may do something in the way of salvation – but dear fellow if you think so – dont oh dont for a moment let it prevent your leaning for all your salvation ...
Contents
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Reading Hardys Biblical | 20 |
Hardy and Hamlet | 38 |
Hardy and Other Poets | 55 |
Hardys Subterranean Child | 78 |
Hardys Grotesque Sublime | 96 |
The Erotics of Dress in A Pair of Blue Eyes | 118 |
Hardys Rural Painting of the Dutch School | 136 |
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Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate Michael Millgate Limited preview - 2006 |