Wilson Keith - Student companion to Thomas Hardy

Keith Wilsons A Companion to Thomas Hardy is distinguished for the thoroughness with which it covers intellectual contexts and for the quality of its contributors. Scholars and students of Hardy will not want to be without it.

Studies in English Literature

Like the many other titles in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, this volume offers comprehensive, newly written work that meets the needs of experienced undergraduates, graduate students, and all who seek the best recent scholarship on Hardy These fresh perspectives on Hardy will lead many to reread Hardy with new vision.

English Literature in Transition

There must be at least ten good books worth of ideas and analyses in these thirty essays.

Hardy Review

Hardy was a diverse, complex author, and this text mirrors his diversity and does much to explain his complexity. Highly recommended.

Choice

Given the range and number of its essays as well as its treatment of those who influenced Hardy, such as Darwin and Mill, this book will be indispensable for anyone conducting research in the nineteenth-century novel or poetry or teaching in the area With thirty critical essays from some of the most prominent experts in Hardy scholarship, in addition to Keith Wilsons provocative and concise introduction, this new book will inspire readers to return to the texts themselves.

New Books on Literature

This collection of essays is accessible to both the general reader and the scholar The typeface is clear, the page quality and binding of a high standard, making this, like other titles in the series, an excellent addition to any academic library collection serving English literary studies and the public library looking to provide an up-to-date critical context for its fiction collection.

Reference Reviews

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.

This edition first published 2013

2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization 2013 Keith Wilson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Thomas Hardy / edited by Keith Wilson.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-5668-4 (cloth) 978-1-118-30749-6 (pbk.)

1. Hardy, Thomas, 18401928Criticism and interpretationHandbooks, manuals, etc.

I. Wilson, Keith (Keith G.)

PR4754.C56 2009

823.8dc22

2008047634

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Photograph of Thomas Hardy c. 191314 by E. O. Hopp. Image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London. E. O. Hopp Estate | Curatorial Assistance, Inc.

Cover design by Richard Boxall Design Associates

Notes on Contributors

Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway College, University of London. His recent publications include Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000), and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). His Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Longman Annotated Texts) will appear in a new edition in 2009.