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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... Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Verse [1973]),1 had famously complained in the pages of Critical Quarterly about what he saw as the continued inadequacies, nearly forty years after Hardy's death, of the kind of criticism his work ...
... Oxford University Press, who were prepared to make some investment in the preparation of genuine scholarly editions. Dale Kramer's Clarendon edition of The Woodlanders appeared in 1981, followed in 1983 by Juliet Grindle and Simon ...
... Oxford University Press, 1972) the novel thesis 'that in British poetry of the last fifty years ... the most far-reaching influence, for good and ill, has been not Yeats, still less Eliot or Pound, not Lawrence, but Hardy' (3). 2 Philip ...
... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), 106. For key stages in the demolition of the Tryphena's-son- by-Hardy story see F.B. Pinion, A Hardy Companion (London: Macmillan, 1968), 435–40; Robert Gittings, 'Thomas Hardy and Tryphena Sparks ...
... (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978–88), 5:174. 19 LW, 20. 20 See Fifty-Seven Poems by Thomas Hardy, ed. Bernard Jones (Gillingham, Dorset: Meldon House, 2002). 21 Dennis Taylor, Hardy's Poetry, 1860–1928 (London: Macmillan, 1981), 105. 22 Millgate ...
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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