Thomas Hardy's short stories : new perspectives

Author(s)

• Schaefer, Juliette Berning
• Brownson, Siobhan Craft

Bibliographic Information

Thomas Hardy's short stories : new perspectives

edited by Juliette Berning Schaefer and Siobhan Craft Brownson

（Nineteenth century series）

Routledge, 2017

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Figures Introduction Acknowledgements Part One: Periodical Publication 1 Neither Tales nor Short Stories: Issues of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing in A Group of Noble Dames Graham Law 2 "Moonlight Nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News Siobhan Craft Brownson Part Two: Gender Relationships 3"Getting life-leased at all cost": Marriage in Hardy's Late Short Stories Suzanne Flynn 4 Pregnant by a Portrait: The Dynamics of Desire for Hardy's "Imaginative Woman" Deborah Manion 5"Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction Karin Koehler Part Three: Community Relationships 6 Hardy and Humor: The Mores of Wessex Juliette Berning Schaefer 7 Love, Deception, and Disguise in A Few Crusted Characters JoAnna Stephens Mink Part Four: Narrative Technique 8 "To Correct the Misrelation": Reading Hardy's Wessex Tales Neelanjana Basu 9 Representations of the Body in Hardy's Life's Little Ironies Carolina Paganine 10 Hardy's Mercurial Narrator: "Breaking the Frame" in "A Changed Man" Keith Callis Notes on Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB2346484X
• ISBN:
  • 9781472480033
• LCCN: 2016026061
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 200 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4754
  • DC23 : 823/.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Short stories, English -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA25193473