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intentionally left blank  \nThomas Hardy  \n# Imagining ImaginationHardy's Poetry and Fiction\n\nBARBARA HARDY  \nFirst published in 2000 byTHE ATHLONE PRESS1 Park Drive,London NW117SGand New Brunswick,New Jersey  \nBarbara Hardy 2000  \nBarbara Hardy has asserted her rightunder the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act,1998,to be identified as the author ofthis work  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library  \nISBN0485115433 HB0485121530 PB  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nHardy,Barbara Nathan  \nThomas Hardy:imagining imagination:Hardy's poetry and fiction/Barbara Hardyp.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN0-485-11543-3(alk.paper)--ISBN0-485-12153-0(pbk.:alk.paper)  \n1.Hardy,Thomas,1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation.2.Imagination inliterature.3.Imagination.I.Title.PR4757.14 H372000823'.8--dc2199-054615  \nDistributed in The United States,Canada and South America by  \nTransaction Publishers390 Campus DriveSomerset,New Jersey 08873  \nAll righs 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 or otherwise,without priorpermission in writing from the publisher.  \nFor Sam Hynes  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \nReferences  \nix1  \nIntroduction  \n1.Portraits of the Artist in the Novels5  \n2.Centres of Creativity in the Novels33  \n3.Good Times in Jude the Obscure:Constructing Fictions57  \n4.Portraits of the Artist in the Poems83  \n5.Arts of Conversation106  \n6.The Poetry of Place138  \n7.Sexual Imagination:the Monologues  \n160  \n8.Thresholds and Limits179Inside and Outside179Human Beings and Others193The Supernatural202Reticence209  \n218  \nNotes  \nSelect BooklistIndex  \n226  \n223  \n## Acknowledgements\n\nI am indebted to the following friends and colleagues:Michael Baron,Jerome Beaty,Jean Brooks,Richard Ell-mann,Pat Fowles,James Gibson,Beryl Gray,Ian Gregor,Samuel Hynes,Kenneth Marsden,Toru Sasaki,BrianSoutham and many Birkbeck students;also to the Univer-sity of London Library,Birkbeck College Library,and theChelsea and Kensington Libraries in the Old BromptonRoad and Hornton Street.I have warm memories ofvisits to Ankara,Dorchester and Jerusalem,where I gavepapers and enjoyed discussions on Hardy.  \nChapters One,Two and Four are revised and extendedversions of lectures originally given at the middle EastTechnical University at Ankara,for a seminar in memoryof Dr Evin Noyan;Chapter One also draws briefly on myintroduction to the New Wessex edition of A Laodicean;Chapter Three is a revision of a paper given at theHebrew University of Jerusalem,published in RereadingTexts/Rethinking Critical presuppositions.Essays in Honour of  \nH.M.Daleski,ed.Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,LeoneToker and Shuli Barzilai,Frankfurt-am-Main:Peter Lang,1997;Chapter Five and Six are based on lectures for theHardy Society;and Chapter Eight is a revision of an essayin Tensions and Transitions(1869-1990).For Ian Gregor,ed.Michael Irwin,Mark Kinkead-Weekes and A.RobertLee,London:Faber &Faber,1990.  \nDiscussions of Hardy from which this book has devel-oped are in The Appropriate Form(Athlone,1971)Tellersand Listeners(Athlone,1975),and Forms of Feeling inVictorian Fiction(Peter Owen,1985),but unlike my earlierwriting this is about the poetry as well as the novels.  \n## References\n\nQuotations of novels are from the New Wessex Edition,London:Macmillan,1974-5,and quotations of poemsfrom The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy,ed.Samuel Hynes,Oxford:Clarendon Press,1984.","cbCaigJsn3i53Mu4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigJsn3i53Mu4","pdf",9059388,235,"English","# Contents\n## Acknowledgements\n## References","[{\"question\":\"What aspects of Thomas Hardy’s work does the book study?\",\"answer\":\"It examines Hardy’s imagination across both his novels and poems, 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