Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study

by Sophie Gilmartin and Rod Mengham

Book Overview

Provides a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474407633
• ISBN13: 9781474407632
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 160 Pages