Authors in Context: Thomas Hardy - Brossura

Ingham, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0199555389 ISBN 13: 9780199555383

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2009

Riassunto

Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context.

Hardy was born before the invention of the car, the telephone, and the aeroplane, when no woman could vote, when there were different rules for men and women wanting to divorce, and education was the preserve of the upper classes. He lived to see the Zeppelins over London, new divorce laws, wider educational opportunities, votes for women, and the questioning of religion. In novels such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure Hardy engaged directly with the issues of the day, and his fiction resonates with contemporary concerns. This book explores the interconnections between life and art, and shows how modern interpretations on film and television create new contexts in which to read the works afresh.

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Recensione:

'a remarkable and succinct statement of many different but important aspects of Hardy's life and work, invaluable to students studying his work' (Dr James Gibson)

L'autore:

Patricia Ingham is the General Editor for the Authors in Context series and author of The Language of Gender and Class: Transformations in the Victorian Novel (1996), Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel (2001), and The Brontes: A Critical Reader. She has also edited Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Gissing's The Odd Women for Oxford World's Classics.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199555389
• ISBN 13: 9780199555383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288