Hardy and His Readers

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-349-42740-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Hardy's Contemporary Readers: Some Introductory Questions 'Breaking into Fiction': The Tinsley Novels The Cornhill Stories: 'Healthy Reading for the British Public'? Middling Hardy: Reconsidering His Readers Graphic Tragedies: Writing for Two Audiences Phase the Last: Farewell to Fiction References Index

Über Autor(innen)

T.R. WRIGHT studied at Oxford and Princeton before becoming Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle. His books include , , , and .