A Companion to Thomas Hardy - Edited by Keith Wilson - First Published 2009

Sep 18, 2026

A Companion to Thomas Hardy edited by Keith Wilson provides a comprehensive scholarly overview of Thomas Hardy within English literary culture and history. The volume offers newly written surveys of key periods, movements, and major author contexts, supporting both beginning students and experienced undergraduates and new graduate readers. It includes bibliographical references and an index, with chapters spanning biography, intellectual influences, philosophy, Darwin, cultural place, the Church, Hardy’s notebooks, discourse and generic hybridity, and Hardy’s critics.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages495

Reading Time12 h 42 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Introduction

Part I The Life

Part II The Intellectual Context

A Companion to Thomas Hardy A Companion to Thomas Hardy Edited by Keith Wilson © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-15668-4 Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new ﬁelds of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the ﬁeld. Published Recently 42. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350–c.1500 Edited by Peter Brown 43. A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880–2005 Edited by Mary Luckhurst 44. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry Edited by Christine Gerrard 45. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt 46. A Companion to Satire Edited by Ruben Quintero 47. A Companion to William Faulkner Edited by Richard C. Moreland 48. A Companion to the History of the Book Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose 49. A Companion to Emily Dickinson Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz 50. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman 51. A Companion to Charles Dickens Edited by David Paroissien 52. A Companion to James Joyce Edited by Richard Brown 53. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren 54. A Companion to the History of the English Language Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto 55. A Companion to Henry James Edited by Greg Zacharias 56. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm 57. A Companion to Jane Austen Edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite 58. A Companion to the Arthurian Literature Edited by Helen Fulton 59. A Companion to the Modern American Novel: 1900–1950 Edited by John T. Matthews 60. A Companion to the Global Renaissance Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh 61. A Companion to Thomas Hardy Edited by Keith Wilson For more information on the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, please visit [www.wiley.com](www.wiley.com) A C O M P A N I O N T O THOMAS HARDY EDITED BY KEITH WILSON A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition ﬁrst published 2009 © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization © 2009 Keith Wilson Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientiﬁc, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Ofﬁce John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Ofﬁces 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial ofﬁces, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley. com/wiley-blackwell. The right of Keith Wilson to be identiﬁed as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designati

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What is the focus of A Companion to Thomas Hardy?

It offers scholarly surveys examining Thomas Hardy’s life and intellectual context within English literary culture and history.

Who edited the volume?

The book is edited by Keith Wilson.

What kinds of material does the contents include?

The contents cover topics such as biography, philosophy, Darwin, cultural context, the Church, Hardy’s notebooks, and Hardy’s critics, along with bibliographical references and an index.

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