Reading Thomas Hardy
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Word Count
40,500 words, Guess
Page Count
162 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107177963
- ISBN-101107177960
- OCLC Control Number983043503
- Better World Books9781107177963
- Open LibraryOL28637035M
Classifications
- LCCPR4740
- LCCPR4754 .L48 2017
Description
This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy by leading critic George Levine disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview and Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. In so doing Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing strategies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the literary responses of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardy in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life and sometimes drives his bleakest narratives. -- Page [4] of cover.
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