Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory

by Tim Armstrong

Book Overview

Hardy was a poet of ghosts. In his poetry he describes himself as posthumous; as rekindling the cinders of passion; as the guardian of the dead forgotten by history; and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy's poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349643815
• ISBN13: 9781349643813
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"