Thomas Hardy |
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Author:
| Widdowson, Peter |
Series title: | Writers and Their Work Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7463-0756-4 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1996 |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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In this study, Peter Widdowson explores Hardy's focus on unstable class and sexual relations in a society undergoing rapid change; the highly-charged and contradictory representations of women at the heart of this dangerously 'metamorphic' social process; the self-reflexive artifice of the writing itself as an aspect of Hardy's 'satiric' worldview; his ironic humanism in the 'new Dark Age' of the modern world.
In this study, Peter Widdowson explores Hardy's focus on unstable class and sexual relations in a society undergoing rapid change; the highly-charged and contradictory representations of women at the heart of this dangerously 'metamorphic' social process; the self-reflexive artifice of the writing itself as an aspect of Hardy's 'satiric' worldview; his ironic humanism in the 'new Dark Age' of the modern world.