Hardy in History by Peter Widdowson
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 constraints imposed by orthodox literary history.
This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century literature.
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The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel
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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Literature of Change
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Partings Welded Together
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George Eliot and Schiller
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The Victorian Novelist
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Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative
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Walter Scott
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Eve Tempted
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A Theory of the Classical Novel
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Hardy of Wessex
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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
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Dickens in America
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Courtship and the English Novel
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Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel
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Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
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Religious Feeling and Religious Commitment in Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Werfel and Bernanos
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Picturing
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Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination
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The Paradox of Gissing
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Disraeli the Novelist
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Meredith Now
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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells
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Dickens and Popular Entertainment
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Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900
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Reflecting on Nana
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George Gissing
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The Savage in Literature
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Editing Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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The Melancholy Man
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Zola
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Anthony Trollope
PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire. He was a well-known critic whose publications for students include A Readers' Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (with Peter Brooker, Longman, 1997), Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Graham Swift (Northcote House, 2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138677517 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138677515 |
| Title | Hardy in History |
| Author | Peter Widdowson |
| Series | Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2016-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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