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Hardy and His Readers
T. R. Wright
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Description for Hardy and His Readers
Hardcover. This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Initially content to compromise, to provide them with congenial entertainment, Hardy resorted at first to strategies of subversion, smuggling material past his editors and finally to outspoken attack. Professor T. R. Wright attempts to balance historical research into the response of 'actual' readers and the material conditions of publishing with literary-critical analysis of the 'implied' reader inscribed in the novels themselves.
This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Initially content to compromise, to provide them with congenial entertainment, Hardy resorted at first to strategies of subversion, smuggling material past his editors and finally to outspoken attack. Professor T. R. Wright attempts to balance historical research into the response of 'actual' readers and the material conditions of publishing with literary-critical analysis of the 'implied' reader inscribed in the novels themselves.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333962602
SKU
V9780333962602
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About T. R. Wright
T.R. WRIGHT studied at Oxford and Princeton before becoming Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle. His books include The Religion of Humanity, Theology and Literature, Hardy and the Erotic, George Eliot's Middlemarch and D.H. Lawrence and the Bible.
Reviews for Hardy and His Readers
'...Wright's book registers with particular force how the novelist's uneasy relationship with his contemporary audience... left permanent traces in his text... [Wright] makes an absorbing case for a novelist both alert to and critically engaged with the conventions of his form, one whose habitual medium was less a faithful mirror than a refracting glass.' - Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement ... Read more