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Informationen zum Autor JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He has written and edited numerous books on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and literary theory, and is the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Transitions series. Klappentext No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry. Zusammenfassung No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations and a Note on the Text Aknowedgements Introduction: Dwelling on Hardy Apprehension, Suspension, Abstention: Desperate Remedies (1871) Distortions and Transformations: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Being and Dwelling: Far From the Madding Crowd (1874),The Return of the Native (1878) and Two on a Tower (1882) Uncommon Events: The Trumpet Major (1880), A Laodicean (1881) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Confessions of the Other:The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895) Afterword Notes Bibliography Index.
