Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction

by Barbara Nathan Hardy and Barbara Hardy

The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspection+ s, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485121530
• ISBN13: 9780485121537
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.3"