274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
First published in 1989, this study investigates Hardy not so much in terms of his novels but as he has been constituted as a major figure in English literature. Using Hardy as a case-study, it looks at how a ‘great writer’ is produced in sociological terms, analysing the critical, cultural and ideological factors involved. By exposing this construction, the book seeks to release Hardy from the... Read more
List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Literature: criticism, and history; Part I: Making ‘Thomas Hardy’: A Critiography; 1. The critical constitution of ‘Thomas Hardy’ 2. ‘Thomas Hardy’ in education 3. ‘Tragedies of modern life’? ‘Thomas Hardy on radio, TV, and film; Part II: Remaking Thomas Hardy; Hardy and social class: reading The Life 5. Hardy and social class: The Hand of Ethelberta 6. Another ‘Wessex’; another ‘Thomas Hardy’; Notes; References; Index
Biography
Peter Widdowson
