"Focusing on narrative structure and on elements of irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical, polemical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels." "Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued he...

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1. Verfasser:	Fisher, Joe (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York St. Martin's Press 1992
Ausgabe:	1. publ. in the United States of America
Schlagworte:	Hardy, Thomas <1840-1928> > Criticism and interpretation Hardy, Thomas > 1840-1928 Roman
Zusammenfassung:	"Focusing on narrative structure and on elements of irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical, polemical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels." "Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, and they mask, often very imperfectly, remarkably sustained, consistently argued hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic and cultural structures. In approaching Hardy's novels from the perspective of these partly concealed attacks, rather than from their difficult and unstable surfaces, Joel Fisher is able to reveal, and to celebrate, the way in which the career of a successful Victorian novelist is an equally successful campaign of subversion and deception."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	X, 205 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0312057873