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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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2004

ISBN

9780230389663

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
A Note on Texts Used
Introduction: Hardy and Literary Studies at the Turn of the Century
1 Flesh and Spirit in Thomas Hardy
2 Hardy and the Limits of Culturalism
3 Speech Acts, Decisions, and Community in The Mayor of Casterbridge
4 Hardy or James? Thoughts on Academic Literary Discrimination Today
5 Hardy, Barbarism, and the Transformations of Modernity
6 A Laodicean: Hardy and the Philosophy of Money
7 Story, History, Allegory: Some Ironies of Jude the Obscure from a Benjamin Perspective
8 The Contemporary, the All: Liberal Politics and the Origins of Wessex
9 'Saying that now you are not as you were': Hardy's 'Poems of 1912–13'
10 Hardy, History, and Recorded Music
11 Hardy and Contemporary Textual Studies: Authorial Intention in The Trumpet-Major
12 Thomas Hardy at the End of Two Centuries: From Page to Screen
Notes
Works Cited
Index