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Thomas Hardy and the folk horror tradition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Smith, Alan G., 1951- (Author), Edgar-Hunt, Robert (Author), Marland, John (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023.
Subjects:
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Influence.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Folk horror fiction > History and criticism.
Folk horror films > History and criticism.
Folklore in literature.
Folklore in motion pictures.
Film: styles & genres.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: 'Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs'
  • 1 Foundations: Towards a Hardyan folk horror
  • 2 Haunted Hardy
  • 3 Cultural bereavement
  • 4 Re-enchantment
  • 5 Hardy constructed and re-constructed
  • 6 Hardy's range of narrative perspectives
  • 7 Wessex on page and screen
  • Conclusion: 'Teach me to live that I may dread the grave as little as my bed'
  • Works cited
  • Index