附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and referencing; Introduction; LIFE AND CONTEXTS; Rural childhood; Architect and autodidact; Young man in London; Apprentice novelist: Cornwall and love; Far From the Madding Crowd: fame and marriage; Nomadic novelist; Dorchester, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and high society; Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and the abandonment of fiction; Emergence of the poet; Emma's death; marriage to Florence; Moments of Vision and writing The Life of Thomas Hardy; Final years; WORK.
摘要:This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work. It includes the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Both exposition and guide, this volume enables students to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.
