This critical study of Hardys short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of ...several individual texts.
Cancelled Words Morgan, Rosemarie
1992, 20020311, 2002-03-11
eBook
The manuscript of Hardy's first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy's work. ...The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words' which were the result of a long struggle with Sir Leslie Stephen, Hardy's editor. Cancelled Words reveals the manner in which Hardy worked, his resistance to censorship, his obsessive attention to detail and precision, and the often concealed processes underlying his authorship. Ultimately, it serves to shape our understanding of the development of the modern novel.
CHAIRMAN’S NOTES FINCHAM, TONY
Thomas Hardy journal,
10/2020, Letnik:
36
Journal Article
Recenzirano
After lunch, Jerry Bird entertained us with songs from the French Wars, a pre-recorded Andrew Hewitt then espoused much critical theory prior to Tracy Hayes regaling us with 'Hardy's Silly Soldiers' ...followed by a panel discussion, which led in the 2020 THS AGM. On the following morning I led 20+ socially-distanced walkers along public rights of way around the entire area to the North of Dorchester which is threatened by housing development. The THS continues to protest about this planning proposal: letters from individuals carry much weight - so do please personally object to this application, if you care at all about the preservation of Hardy's landscape.
This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively ...contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.
The book is best read, perhaps, as a portrait of the house, the family, and their milieu: if you want a sense of the social world Hardy's success as a novelist had opened up to him - a world Emma ...regarded as better suited to her own attainments and connections than her husband's - this is the book for you. The blurb describes it as combining the interest of a novel and a memoir, as a figure based on the author, and already fascinated by the idea of a fictional character (Henchard) living in a 'real' building (now, of course, Barclay's Bank in Dorchester) is approached by the phantom of Hardy, and invited to discover what Hardy missed in love. Many members of the Society will know Jacqueline from her time as the National Trust's Scholar in Residence at Max Gate, and may well have heard presentations from her at the Conference, at the Dorset County Museum, and the London lecture at Birkbeck College in 2014.
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