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Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form Revised and Exp Edition
Contributor(s): Boumelha, Penny (Author)
ISBN: 1911454722     ISBN-13: 9781911454724
Publisher: Edward Everett Root
OUR PRICE:   $52.20  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Reference
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 823.8
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.88 lbs) 216 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. Penny Boumelha here examines his writing in the light of its central concern with women and marriage.

The author traces Hardy's development from the early novels, in which the male and female natures are polarities, to the later fictions. This culminated in Jude the Obscure, in which there are marked similarities between the two protagonists and where the heroine's tragedy resides not in any given idea of female nature, but in her specific experiences as a woman.

This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the New: " Bodies, Children and Futures in Hardy's Novels.' - which seeks to balance the widespread critical emphasis on Hardy's preoccupation with the way that the past - personal, historical and evolutionary - impinges on the present with an exploration of his representation of possible futures.

Contributor Bio(s): Boumelha, Penny: - Penny Boumelha, FAHA, holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Adelaide, where, until 2008, she was the Jury Professor of English Language and Literature. Professor Boumelha was the inaugural Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education there until 2007. She is also an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, where she was Vice-Chancellor (Academic) from 2009 to 2014.