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Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work and its place within a literary tradition.  \nThe carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.  \nSignificant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer’s death.  \nTHOMAS HARDY  \nTHE CRITICAL HERITAGE  \nEdited by  \nR.G.COX  \nLondon and New York  \nFirst published in 1979  \n11 New Fetter Lane  \nLondon EC4P 4EE  \n&  \n29 West 35th Street  \nNew York, NY 10001  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please [go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1979 R.G.Cox  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized 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  \nISBN 0-203-19895-6 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-19898-0 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-13466-8 (Print Edition)  \nGeneral Editor’s Preface  \nThe reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and nearcontemporaries is evidence of considerable value to the student of literature. On one side we learn a great deal about the state of criticism at large and in particular about the development of critical attitudes towards a single writer; at the same time, through private comments in letters, journals or marginalia, we gain an insight upon the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period. Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer’s historical situation, the nature of his immediate reading-public, and his response to these pressures.  \nThe separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism. Clearly, for many of the highly productive and lengthily reviewed nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers there exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views, significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality—perhaps even registering incomprehension!  \nFor earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are much scarcerand the historical period has been extended, sometimes far beyond the writer’s lifetime, in order to show the inception and growth of critical views which were initially slow to appear.  \nIn each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction, discussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the author’s reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition. The volumes will make available much material which would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and judged.  \nB.C.S.  \nContents  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS page x  \nNOTE ON THE TEXT xi  \nINTRODUCTION xii  \nDesperate Remedies (1871)  \n1 Review in Athenaeum 1871 3  \n2 Review in Spectator 1871 5  \n3 Review in Saturday Review 1871 9  \nUnder the Greenwood Tree (1872)  \n4 Review in Athenaeum 1872 15  \n5 HORACE MOULE in Saturday Review 1872 17  \nA Pair of Blue E","cbCaimXXWnm2XWgr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimXXWnm2XWgr","pdf",2718783,518,"English","# General Editor’s Preface\n# Contents\n## Acknowledgments\n## Note on the Text\n## Introduction\n## Desperate Remedies (1871)\n## Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)\n## A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)\n## Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)\n## The Return of the Native (1878)\n## The Trumpet Major (1880)\n## A Laodicean (1881)\n## Two on a Tower (1882)\n## The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)\n## The Woodlanders (1887)\n## Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)\n## Jude the Obscure (1895)","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Critical Heritage series described in the text?\",\"answer\":\"The series collects criticism on major literary figures so students can follow how critical attitudes formed and how each writer’s work fits within a wider literary tradition.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of sources does this volume use to present Hardy’s reception?\",\"answer\":\"It uses landmark essays as well as fragments of contemporary opinion and little-published documentary material such as letters and diaries, plus later criticism to show shifts in reputation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the General Editor’s Preface explain the value of contemporary responses?\",\"answer\":\"It treats reception by contemporaries and near-contemporaries as evidence of the state of criticism, including insights gained from private comments in letters, journals, or marginalia.\"}]","THOMAS HARDY - THE CRITICAL HERITAGE - General Editor’s Preface - Contents | PDF",1789987388,798]