The secret life of Thomas Hardy : "retaliatory fiction"
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The secret life of Thomas Hardy : "retaliatory fiction"
（Nineteenth century series）
Ashgate, c2004
Available at 14 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [167]-170
Includes index
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Description
This work's ruling assumption is that Hardy was - from the outset of his admirably sustained career as novelist and poet - intent on creative mischief-making. It makes clear how Hardy was an outwardly conforming writer with a smuggled cargo of cultural dissent. Its critical perspectives also show how Hardy's approach to representation takes him beyond realism, revealing the psychological undercurrents which render his writing "darkly, deliciously disturbing". With its critical sophistication, this book also ranges widely, re-presenting Hardy's major novels as well as most of those unfairly considered minor, while also considering Hardy's haunted and haunting poetry. Some film and TV versions of his novels are also examined, with special reference to the pitfalls of adaptation.
Table of Contents
- Hardy's pharmacy - "Desperate Remedies"
- "Honey or money?" - "Under the Greenwood Tree"
- Fogeys and fossils - "A Pair of Blue Eyes"
- How not to be (a) Tess - The Hand of Ethelberta
- Home truths - "The Return of the Native"
- The art(s) of misrepresentation - A Laodicean
- The transit of Venus - or, Two on a Tower?
- Misconstructions - "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
- "Retaliatory fiction" - "The Woodlanders"
- Re-presenting "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
- "Hey Jude" - "Jude the Obscure" and interpellation
- Genetically unmodified - "The Well-Beloved"
- Screening Hardy - Recent adaptations [of Jude, Tess and The Woodlanders]
- Spectres of Hardy's poetry - Back to the future.
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