Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

T. Dolin, P. Widdowson, T. Dolin, P. Widdowson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781349432424
  9780333994450
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230389663
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• A Note on Texts Used
• Introduction: Hardy and Literary Studies at the Turn of the Century
• 1 Flesh and Spirit in Thomas Hardy
• 2 Hardy and the Limits of Culturalism
• 3 Speech Acts, Decisions, and Community in The Mayor of Casterbridge
• 4 Hardy or James? Thoughts on Academic Literary Discrimination Today
• 5 Hardy, Barbarism, and the Transformations of Modernity
• 6 A Laodicean: Hardy and the Philosophy of Money
• 7 Story, History, Allegory: Some Ironies of Jude the Obscure from a Benjamin Perspective
• 8 The Contemporary, the All: Liberal Politics and the Origins of Wessex
• 9 'Saying that now you are not as you were': Hardy's 'Poems of 1912–13'
• 10 Hardy, History, and Recorded Music
• 11 Hardy and Contemporary Textual Studies: Authorial Intention in The Trumpet-Major
• 12 Thomas Hardy at the End of Two Centuries: From Page to Screen
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index