Thomas Hardy’s Vision of Wessex ISBN-13: 9781349411276

ISBN-13: 9781349411276

Binding: Paperback

Author: Gatrell, S.

Details: About the Author SIMON GATRELL is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA. He has previously studied the development of the texts of Hardys fiction in a number of essays, in critical editions of Tess of the dUrbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree and The Return of the Native, and in a full-length account: Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography. His most recent book was Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind, and he is currently completing a biography of the Irish poet William Allingham. Product Description Wessex did not spring full-born from Hardys imagination when he began to write. The first part of the book reveals in detail how Wessex became what it is, geographically, socially and culturally, beginning with his fist poem in the 1860s and ending with Winter Words, his last collection of verse. The second (briefer) part is an account of the impact of Hardys vision of Wessex on twentieth-century English culture, offering an explanation for Hardys endurance as a popular novelist. Review …brings Gatrells formidable knowledge of Hardys textual history to bear on the regions imaginative evolution. – Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement

Release Date: 01-01-2003

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches

Languages: english

Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003

Number Of Pages: 281