... On a Darkling Plaitr: Tlre .4rt and Thought of Thomas Hardy. By HARVEY CURTISWEBSTER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. x 4- 240. $3.50. For more than sixty years (i.e., ever since Voti Hartmanu’s Philosophy of the Unconscious first appeared in English) Thornas Hardy’s...

...Ben Parker Abstract The production of abstract value—not limited to the transformation of labor under the exigencies of capitalism but extending to modes of signification undermined by abstract equivalence—plays an unprecedented yet overlooked role in the major novels of Thomas Hardy: unprecedented...

...Samuel Hynes Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 1 DENYS KAY-ROBINSON. Hardy's Wessex Reappraised. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. 275 pp. $7.95. HARDY IN HIS TIMES AND PLACES’ By SAMUELHYNES The problem of Hardy’s...

... according to political norms. Chapter 2 looks back to Scédase, ou l’hospitalité violée (1604, published 1620), a tragedy by Alexandre Hardy, the foremost practicing playwright of the early seventeenth century (and not really a “disregarded model” in current scholarship [45]), as an example of the earlier...

...Ronald Schleifer; Nancy M. West Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Poetry of What Lies Close at Hand: Photography, Commodities, and Postromantic Discourses in Hardy and Stevens Ronald Schleifer and Nancy M. West We understand while we look...

...Mary Ann Gillies Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THOMAS HARDY MODERNIST POET By MARY ANN GILLIES In 1972 Donald Davie claimed that “in British poetry of the last fifty years (as not in American) the most...

... it. EDWARDE. BOSTETTER University of Washington The Poetry of Th0,mu.s Hardy. By JAMES GRANVILLESOUTHWORTH. New York : Columbia University Press, 1947. Pp. xii + 250. $3.00. An editorial in the London Times Literary Supplement, June 14, 1947, identified “the main features of Hardy’s...

... of Thomas Hardy: A Study in Art and Ideas. By WILLIAME. BUCKLER. New York and London: New York University Press, 1983. xii + 303 pp. $27.50. In somewhat quixotic fashion, William E. Buckler sets out to rescue Hardy from the ideological and biographical critics who, in Buckler’s view...

...William T. Starr Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ROMAIN ROLLAND AND THOMAS HARDY By WILLIAMT. STARR When one thinks of Romain Rolland and his novels and biographies, one thinks first of all perhaps of Beethoven, then possibly of Wagner...

...Haskell M. Block Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JAMES JOYCE AND THOMAS HARDY By HASKELLM. BLOCK We do not normally think of the work of James Joyce as in any way related to that of Thomas Hardy. For Joyce had little regard...

...Kent Puckett This essay follows several changes in the dating of “The Darkling Thrush” to ask what the number 1900 might have meant to Thomas Hardy. Although Hardy did not make many edits to the poem itself, he did change the way that it was dated at every opportunity: in manuscript, the date...

...-ended structures in English Romantic writing. L. J. SWINGLE University of Kentucky Hardy’s Poetry, 1860-1928. By DENNISTAYLOR. New York: Columbia University Press, 198 1. xx + 204 pp. $20.00. Hardy was fond of comparing himself...

...Norman Arkans Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 VISION AND EXPERIENCE IN HARDY’S DREAM POEMS In 1917 Hardy copied in his notebook two sections of a poem by ‘‘a poet of the vers libre school.” As with many...

...Jacob Korg Susan Dean. Hardys Poetic Vision in The Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. x + 318 pp. $16.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 82 REVIEWS pioneering scholarship...

...Barbara Hardy Taylor Stoehr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965. xiv + 299 pp. $5.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 230 REVIEWS Dickens: The Dreamer’s Stance. By TAYLORSTOEHR. lthaca: Cornell Uni- versity...

...Tim Dolin In recent years ecocriticism has renovated the old orthodoxy, demolished forty years ago by Raymond Williams, that Thomas Hardy was the “incomparable chronicler” of an unchanging culture and the “last representative of old rural England.” In particular, The Woodlanders has been reread...

... his Study of Thomas Hardy . If by now the book market is awash in antibiographical rewrites, that is because rewriting first asserted itself as a contrarian impulse, a radically different way of thinking about the canon that has become second nature. [email protected] Copyright ©...

...James Gindin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 TOWARD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY’ By JAMES GINDIN Within just the last decade, a proliferation of thoughtful and sensi- tive books concerning Hardy has considerably deepened the level...

...Emma Clifford Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 THE IMPRESSIONISTIC VIEW OF HISTORY IN THE DYNASTS By EMMACLIFFORD The purpose of this essay is to attempt to establish something of the importance of Hardy’s...

...RICHARD STRIER HARDY BARBARA. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1977. 142 pp. $10.95. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 REVIEWS The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in Poetry. By BARBARAHARDY. Bloomington...