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The Hidden Hardy

By Joe Fisher (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1992
ISBN
978-1-349-22158-5, 978-1-349-22156-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22156-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27034754 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
X, 205\215
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Nineteenth-Century Literature;Twentieth-Century Li

Description

Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels. Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, masking hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic and cultural structures.

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