Thomas Hardy's short stories : new perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schaefer, Juliette Berning (Editor), Brownson, Siobhan Craft (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2017]
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Periodical publication
  • Neither tales nor short stories: issues of authorship, readership, and publishing in a group of noble dames / Graham Law
  • "Moonlight nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News / Siobhan Craft Brownson
  • Part 2. Gender relationships
  • "Getting life-leased at all cost": marriage in Hardy's late short stories / Suzanne Flynn
  • Pregnant by a portrait: the dynamics of desire for Hardy's "Imaginative woman" / Deborah Manion
  • "Imaginative sentiment": love, letters, and literacy in Thomas Hardy's shorter fiction / Karin Koehler
  • Part 3. Community relationships
  • Hardy and humor: the Mores of Wessex / Juliette Berning Schaefer
  • Love, deception, and disguise in a few crusted characters / JoAnna Stephens Mink
  • Part 4. Narrative technique "To correct the misrelation": reading Hardy's Wessex tales / Neelanjana Basu
  • Representations of the body in Hardy's life's Little ironies / Carolina Paganine
  • Hardy's mercurial narrator: "breaking the frame" in "A changed man" / Keith Callis.