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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... Jude. Notwithstanding the propensity of the best known of Hardy's literary children to be disconcertingly unchildlike, Hardy scholarship has recently been fascinated by the possibility that his poetic canon might need expansion to ...
... Jude by concluding the preface to the first volume edition with a similar disclaimer: 'Like former productions of this pen, Jude the Obscure is simply an endeavour to give shape and coherence to a series of seemings, or personal ...
... Jude the Obscure and The Dynasts. Paradoxically, however, what is most striking about Hardy's 'non-Hardyan' sermon is that even as it foregrounds the fundamental shift in his religious beliefs it also demonstrates that his central ...
... Jude the Obscure, 'if the bishop could have known him as he was, he would have found a man whose personal conduct, views of morality, and of the vital facts of religion, hardly differed from his own' (LW, 295). In his 1922 'Apology ...
... Jude the Obscure (London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1896 [1895]), vi. 5 The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, ed. Samuel Hynes, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982–95), 3:166. Hereafter cited as CPW. 6 That Hardy did not hesitate to revise ...
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 |