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The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy is part of a unique series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which:  \n• offer basic information on an author’s life, contexts and works  \n• outline the major critical issues surrounding the author’s works, from the time they were written to the present  \n• leave judgements up to you, by explaining the full range of often very different critical views and interpretations  \n• offer guides to further reading in each area discussed.  \nThis series has a broad focus but one very clear aim: to equip you with all the knowledge you need to make your own new readings of crucial literary texts.  \nGeoffrey Harvey is the author of The Romantic Tradition in Modern English Poetry (1986) and has contributed to Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy’s Poetry (ed. G.K. Hall, 1995) . He is Senior Lecturer in English atthe University of Reading.  \nTHE COMPLETE CRITICAL GUIDE TO  \nENGLISH LITERATURE Series Editors  \nRICHARD BRADFORD AND JAN JEDRZEJEWSKI  \nAlso available in this series:  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett David Pattie  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning Stefan Hawlin  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer Gillian Rudd  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson James Loxley  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to D.H. Lawrence Fiona Becket  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to John Milton Richard Bradford The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope Paul Baines  \nForthcoming:  \nThe Complete Critical Guide to Charles Dickens  \nVisit the website of The Complete Critical Guide to English Literature for further information and an updated list of titles [www.literature.routledge.com/criticalguides](www.literature.routledge.com/criticalguides)  \nTHE COMPLETE CRITICAL GUIDE TO  \nTHOMAS HARDY  \nGeoffrey Harvey  \nFirst published 2003  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.  \n© 2003 Geoffrey Harvey  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Harvey, Geoffrey, 1943–  \nThe complete critical guide to Thomas Hardy / Geoffrey Harvey.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \n1. Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928 – Criticism and interpretation – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Wessex (England)– In literature – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title PR4754 . H28 2003 823´ . 8–dc21 2002014228  \nISBN 0-203-42293-7 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-42472-7 (Adobe eReader Format)  \nISBN 0–415–23491–3 (hbk)  \nISBN 0–415–23492–1 (pbk)  \nFor Lynne  \nCONTENTS  \nSeries editors’ preface ix  \nAcknowledgements xi  \nAbbreviations and referencing xii  \nIntroduction 1  \nPart I LIFE AND CONTEXTS 3  \n(a) Rural childhood 5  \n(b) Architect and autodidact 8  \n(c) Young man in London 13  \n(d) Apprentice novelist: Cornwall and love 16  \n(e) Far From theMadding Crowd: fame and marriage 21  \n(f) Nomadic novelist 24  \n(g) Dorchester, The Mayor ofCasterbridge, and high society 30  \n(h) Tess ofthe d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and ","cbCaisdDv32XmWSL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisdDv32XmWSL","pdf",1083752,241,"English","# Introduction\n# Part I LIFE AND CONTEXTS\n## Rural childhood\n## Architect and autodidact\n## Young man in London\n## Apprentice novelist: Cornwall and love\n## Far From the Madding Crowd: fame and marriage\n## Nomadic novelist\n## Dorchester, The Mayor ofCasterbridge, and high society\n## Tess ofthe d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and the abandonment of fiction\n## Emergence of the poet\n## Emma’s death; marriage to Florence\n## Moments of Vision and writing The Life of Thomas Hardy\n## Final years\n# Part II WORK\n## Hardy’s categorisation of his fiction\n## Major novels\n## Lesser novels\n## Short stories\n## Poetry\n## The Dynasts\n## The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy\n# Part III CRITICISM\n## Tragedy\n## Wessex\n## Humanist formalism\n## Structuralism and deconstruction\n## Psychoanalytic approaches\n## Marxist criticism\n## Feminist and gender studies\n## Poetry\n## Other topics and issues\n# Chronology\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What approach does the book take to Hardy’s life and works?\",\"answer\":\"It pairs biographical and contextual chapters with detailed coverage of Hardy’s major and lesser works, then expands into critical interpretations by major critical traditions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the guide present different critical viewpoints?\",\"answer\":\"It explains the full range of often very different critical views and interpretations, leaving final judgments to the reader rather than imposing a single verdict.\"},{\"question\":\"What reference tools are included to support study?\",\"answer\":\"The guide provides a bibliography, an index, and a chronology, along with a structured table of contents and scholarly apparatus such as abbreviations and referencing.\"}]","THE COMPLETE CRITICAL GUIDE TO THOMAS HARDY - Introductory critical guide | PDF",1790549648,371]