THOMAS HARDY'S SHORTER FICTION by Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham ( 9781474407632 )

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THOMAS HARDY'S SHORTER FICTION
A CRITICAL STUDY

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Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham

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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 April, 2016

Pages:

208

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This critical study of Hardy's 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. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry.

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