Thomas Hardy

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Part of the new OWC series, Authors in Context, Thomas Hardy is a critical companion to the OWC Hardy editions. It examines Hardy's novels and puts them in their author's social, cultural, and political contexts.
Thomas Hardy was born before the invention of the car, the telephone, and the airplane, when no woman could vote, when there were different rules for men and women wanting to divorce, and education was the preserve of the upper classes. He lived to see the Zeppelins ...

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Overview

Part of the new OWC series, Authors in Context, Thomas Hardy is a critical companion to the OWC Hardy editions. It examines Hardy's novels and puts them in their author's social, cultural, and political contexts.
Thomas Hardy was born before the invention of the car, the telephone, and the airplane, when no woman could vote, when there were different rules for men and women wanting to divorce, and education was the preserve of the upper classes. He lived to see the Zeppelins over London, new divorce laws, wider educational opportunities, votes for women, and the questioning of religion. In novels such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure Hardy engaged directly with the issues of the day, and his fiction resonates with contemporary concerns.
This book explores the interconnections between life and art, and shows how modern interpretations in film and television create new contexts in which to read the works afresh.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780710809742
  • Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf
  • Publication date: 1/1/1989
  • Pages: 124

Meet the Author

Patricia Ingham is the General Editor for the Authors in Context series and author of The Language of Gender and Class: Transformations in the Victorian Novel (1996), Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel (2001), and The Brontes: A Critical Reader. She has also edited Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Gissing's The Odd Women for Oxford World's Classics.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
A Chronology of Thomas Hardy xi
Abbreviations xxii
1. The Life of Thomas Hardy 1
2. The Fabric of Society 32
3. The Literary Context 69
4. Social Issues: Class in Hardy's Novels 104
5. Social Issues: Women and Society 129
6. Hardy and Science: Space, Time, Evolution, and the Human Race 153
7. Religious Issues 181
8. Hardy Recontextualized 213
Notes 241
Further Reading 247
Websites 252
Versions of Hardy's Novels for Cinema and Television 253
Index 255
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