Thomas Hardy reappraised : essays in honour of Michael Millgate / edited by Keith Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Millgate, Michael.

Wilson, Keith (Keith G.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation.

Hardy, Thomas.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2006]

Contents:

1 The Gospel According to Hardy / Pamela Dalziel 3

2 'My Scripture Manner': Reading Hardy's Biblical and Liturgical Allusion / Mary Rimmer 20

3 Hardy and Hamlet / Dennis Taylor 38

4 Literary Allusion: Hardy and Other Poets / Barbara Hardy 55

5 Hardy's Subterranean Child / U.C. Knoepflmacher 78

6 Written in Stone: Hardy's Grotesque Sublime / Marjorie Garson 96

7 The Erotics of Dress in A Pair of Blue Eyes / Simon Gatrell 118

8 Hardy's Rural Painting of the Dutch School / Ruth Bernard Yeazell 136

9 Individual and Community in The Return of the Native: A Reappraisal / J. Hillis Miller 154

10 The Woodlanders and the Darwinian Grotesque / George Levine 174

11 Plato and the Love Goddess: Paganism in Two Versions of The Well-Beloved / Jeremy V. Steele 199

12 Aesthetics and Thematics in Hardy's Volumes of Verse: The Example of Time's Laughingstocks / William W. Morgan 219

13 Hardy and the Battle God / Samuel Hynes 245

14 Opening Time: Hardy's Poetic Thresholds / Norman Page 262

15 Thomas Hardy and the Powyses / W.J. Keith 270

Selected Checklist of Hardy-Related Publications / Michael Millgate 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802039553

OCLC:

62535640

Publisher Number:

9780802039552