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Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Tim Dolin

    1. Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

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  2. Peter Widdowson

    1. University of Gloucestershire, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Hardy and Literary Studies at the Turn of the Century

    • Tim Dolin, Peter Widdowson
    Pages 1-13

  3. Flesh and Spirit in Thomas Hardy

    • Terry Eagleton
    Pages 14-22

  4. Hardy and the Limits of Culturalism

    • Guy Davidson
    Pages 23-35

  5. Speech Acts, Decisions, and Community in The Mayor of Casterbridge

    • J. Hillis Miller
    Pages 36-53

  6. Hardy or James? Thoughts on Academic Literary Discrimination Today

    • Simon During
    Pages 54-64

  7. Hardy, Barbarism, and the Transformations of Modernity

    • Brett Neilson
    Pages 65-79

  8. A Laodicean: Hardy and the Philosophy of Money

    • Roger Ebbatson
    Pages 80-98

  9. Story, History, Allegory: Some Ironies of Jude the Obscure from a Benjamin Perspective

    • Michael Hollington
    Pages 99-115

  10. The Contemporary, the All: Liberal Politics and the Origins of Wessex

    • Tim Dolin
    Pages 116-137

  11. ’saying that now you are not as you were’: Hardy’s ‘Poems of 1912–13’

    • Linda M. Shires
    Pages 138-152

  12. Hardy, History, and Recorded Music

    • Tim Armstrong
    Pages 153-166

  13. Hardy and Contemporary Textual Studies: Authorial Intention in The Trumpet-Major

    • Mary Rimmer
    Pages 167-177

  14. Thomas Hardy at the End of Two Centuries: From Page to Screen

    • Peter Widdowson
    Pages 178-198

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 199-227
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About this book

For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.

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'The excellence of this collection lies in its achieving its two central aims: to provide 'theoretical demonstrations' - examples or models of reading Hardy's stories and poems in light of a variety of critical theories - and, while doing so, to analyze important characteristic features of the stories and poems. The result is a series of always lucid, frequently brilliant, essays by well-known English, Australian, and American writers. While adopting famous theoretical concepts with a skill that will allow students to see the grounds for their approaches, the authors bring to bear on Hardy remarkable insight and originality that will reward the professional reader and enthusiast.' - Dale Kramer, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Illinois

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

    Tim Dolin

  • University of Gloucestershire, UK

    Peter Widdowson

About the editors

TIM ARMSTRONG Reader in Modern English and American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK GUY DAVIDSON Teaches in the English Studies and Communications and Cultural Studies Programs, University of Wollongong, Australia SIMON DURING Teaches at Johns Hopkins University, USA TERRY EAGLETON Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK ROGER EBBATSON Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK MICHAEL HOLLINGTON Professor at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France J. HILLIS MILLER UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Irvine, 1986 BRETT NEILSON Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia MARY RIMMER Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada LINDA M. SHIRES Professor of English, Syracuse University

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