Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) - Hardcover

Gatrell, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813914353 ISBN 13: 9780813914350

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1993

Synopsis

Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world- with other men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment, and with the supernatural. He focuses on the importance of community in Hardy's fiction, especially on the ability of rural villages and towns to withstand the stresses of industrialized agriculture and the national standardization of education and culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Gatrell is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. His published works include Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography, editions of several of Hardy's novels and fictional manuscripts, and a bibliography of George Crabbe (with Tony Bareham).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813914353
• ISBN 13: 9780813914350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212