This volume introduces you to the life and works of this eminent and prolific Victorian writer. By exploring some of his major novels, short stories and poems, the writers aim to show the relevance of Hardy in the 21st century and help you to develop your own responses to the works. The authors text explores how to approach the novels, short stories and poems and offer contemporary critical approaches to Hardy and his work. They examine Hardy's proccupations with such themes as morality, aspiration, fatalism, nature, industrialization, and the relationship between men and women. Hardy's influence, both in his lifetime and in the 21st century is also explored.
- ISBN10 0340800364
- ISBN13 9780340800362
- Publish Date 29 June 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Learning
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 96
- Language English