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Reading Thomas Hardy
- Title
- Reading Thomas Hardy / George Levine, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
- Author
- Levine, George, 1931-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9173 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xxiii, 141 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy by leading critic George Levine disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct an minimally acadcmic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview and Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-beloved. In so doing Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing stratgegies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the literary responses of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardey in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life and sometimes drives his bleakest narratives. -- from back cover.
- Series Statement
- Reading writers and their work
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Shaping Hardy's art: vision, class, and sex -- Hardy and Darwin: an enchanting Hardy? -- The mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real interlude: Jude and the power of art -- From mindless matter to the art of the mind: The well-beloved -- The poetry of the novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9173
- ISBN
- 9781107177963
- 1107177960
- 1316630803
- 9781316630808
- LCCN
- 2017018571
- OCLC
- 983043503
- Author
- Levine, George, 1931- author.
- Title
- Reading Thomas Hardy / George Levine, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Reading writers and their work
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9173