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Provides a comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short stories

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.

Key Features

  • The only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short stories
  • The provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close readings of a number of key stories enhances the book’s attractiveness 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

Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 30/04/2016
    ISBN13: 9781474407632, 978-1474407632
    ISBN10: 1474407633

    Number of Pages: 208

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    Provides a comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short stories

    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.

    Key Features

    • The only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy’s entire output of short stories
    • The provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close readings of a number of key stories enhances the book’s attractiveness 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

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