Thomas Hardy''s Short Stories New Perspectives

List 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

About the author

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, USA, and Siobhan Craft Brownson is Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Berning Schaefer Juliette (Editor), Craft Brownson Siobhan (Editor), Siobhan Craft Brownson (Editor), Juliette Berning Schaefer (Editor), Siobhan (Winthrop University Craft Brownson (Editor), Juliette (Ohio Dominican University) Berning Schaefer (Editor)
• Authors: Juliette Craft Brownson Berning Schaefer, Juliette (Ohio Dominican Univers Berning Schaefer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.11.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9781472480033
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-8003-3
• Pages: 200
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series; The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Narrative Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, literary modernism, Victorian Literature, Gender dynamics, community identity, periodical studies, Hardy short fiction analysis