Hardy the Writer: Surveys and Assessments

by F.B. Pinion

These essays are arranged progressively to indicate Hardy's development as a writer and thinker, and to present the major aspects of his work as a whole, linking the poetry and the prose at all appropriate stages. They suggest that 'his formative thought, the product of a period of conflict between new scientific philosophy and humanism on the one hand, and traditional Christian theology combined with Victorian restraints on the other, developed when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333473620
• ISBN13: 9780333473627
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"