Thomas Hardy Annual No. 2

272 Pages·1984·25.702 MB·English

by  Norman Page (eds.)

THOMAS HARDY ANNUAL No. 2
Like its predecessor, Thomas Hardy Annual No.2 presents a collection
of new essays, most of them written especially for this volume, by an
international team ofleading Hardy scholars and critics. The range
of topics is wide, representing biographical, critical and compara
tive approaches; and the contributions range over the whole corpus
of Hardy's work-not only his novels and his poetry but also his
notebooks and his disguised autobiography. There are also substan
tial reviews of some of the most recent works of Hardy scholarship
and criticism, and a survey and bibliography of Hardy studies for
1981-2.
Thomas Hardy is now firmly established as a major figure in late
Victorian literature, and there is world-wide interest in his work
both among common readers and among students of literature,
thought and social history. The Annual continues to make available
some of the most important research that is now being done over a
wide spectrum of topics and in many parts of the world.
The editor
Nor~nan Page is Professor of English, University of Alberta,
Canada. A graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds, he
has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has lectured widely on
Hardy and other authors.
His recent books include A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography, A
Dickens Companion, and Tennyson: Interviews and Recollections (editor).
In the same series
THOMAS HARDY ANNUAL No.
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Edited by Norman Page
O'CASEY ANNUALS Nos I, 2, 3
Edited by Robert G. Lowery
YEATS ANNUALS Nos I, 2
Edited by Richard J. Finneran
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THOMAS HARDY
ANNUAL No.2
Edited by Norman Page
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Contents
List of Illustrations Vll
Editor's Note Vlll
The Contributors IX
Editor's Introduction XI
ESSAYS
The Early Stages of Hardy's Fiction Simon Gatrell 3
Hardy's Unwritten Second Sensation Novel Lawrence
Jones 30
Approaches to Fiction: Hardy and Henry James J. T.
Laird 41
The Martyrdom of Giles Winterborne Frank R. Giordano,
Jr 6I
Structure and Tone in The Woodlanders Glenn Irvin 79
Photography as Style and Metaphor in the Art of Thomas
Hardy Arlene M. Jackson 9I
The Fourteenth Line of 'In Tenebris, II' Peter J.
Casagrande I I o
Hardy's Narrative Muse and the Ballad Connection
Norman Arkans I 3 I
Your Story or Your Life? : Reflections on Thomas Hardy's
Autobiography Ian Gregor and Michael Irwin I 57
Arthur Shirley (Vicar of Stinsford, I837--9I) Timothy
Hands I7I
Hardy Among the Critics: the Annotated Scrap Books
Lloyd Siemens I87
Hardy's Reputation in France Annie Escuret I9I
A Survey of Recent Hardy Studies Richard H. Taylor I96
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REVIEWS
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, ed. Dale Kramer
James Gindin 2 1 7
C. H. Salter, Good Little Thomas Hardy Ronald P. Draper 233
Arlene M. Jackson, Illustration and the Novels rif Thomas
Hardy Michael Steig 236
Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Harold
Ore! 242
Penny Boumelha, Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology
and Narrative Form Merryn Williams 249
Reviews in Brief Norman Page 253
A Hardy Bibliography, 1981-2 Richard H. Taylor 255
List of Illustrations
1 A. G. S. Shirley
2 Robert Shirley
3 General Horatio Shirley, K. C. B.
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Editor's Note
Contributions for future volumes of the Annual are welcome at any
time. There is no limit on length, and illustrations may be included
where appropriate. Contributions should be typewritten (double
space throughout, including quotations and footnotes). References
to Hardy's novels should be identified by chapter-number, thus:
(The Woodlanders, ch. 10). Footnotes should be kept to a minimum
and brief references worked into the text wherever possible.
All contributions, correspondence and books for review should be
sent to the editor at the Department of English, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5; or at 41 Trent
Road, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6HE, UK.
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The Contributors
Norman Arkans is Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the
University of Washington, Seattle, and has published essays on
Hardy.
Peter J. Casagrande is Professor of English at the University of
Kansas. He is the author of Unity in Hardy's Novels (1982) and of
many articles on Hardy.
Ronald P. Draper is Professor of English Literature at the
University of Aberdeen. He has published books on D. H. Lawrence
and is the editor of Hardy: The Tragic Novels ( 1975) in the Casebook
Series.
Annie Escuret teaches at the Universite Paul Valery at
Montpellier and has published various articles on Hardy.
Simon Gatrell is a Lecturer in English at the New University of
Ulster. His numerous publications on Hardy include a recent
critical edition of Tess of the d' Urbervilles.
James Gindin is Professor of English at the University of
Michigan. He has published widely on Galsworthy and other
novelists, and is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The
Return of the Native ( 1969) .
Frank R. Giordano,] r, is Professor of English at the University of
Houston and has published on Hardy and other authors.
Ian Gregor is Professor of Modern English Literature at the
University of Kent. His numerous publications include The Great
Web: The Form of Hardy's Major Fiction (1974).
Timothy Hands is researching on Hardy at Oriel College,
Oxford.
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