Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels - Hardcover

Bullen, J. B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071123275X ISBN 13: 9780711232754

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born.
J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today.
Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work.

About this title

About the Author:

J. B. Bullen is a Professor Emeritus University of Reading, where he has taught and lectured on English Literature and Art History for more than twenty-five years. The author of several books and articles, his other title for Frances Lincoln is Rossetti (9780711232259).

Review:

"...great for students studying Hardy's literary legacy and for hardcore Hardy fans..." -Anglotopia.net

"skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy's life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them??.the pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes." - Review 19

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 071123275X
• ISBN 13: 9780711232754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256