Trial by Ordeal: Thomas Hardy and the Critics

by Edward D. Neill

A sharp view of a century's critical commentary on Hardy.

This book demonstrates how critical appropriations of Hardy's work often promote a simplifying, conventional, or conservative image that a sophisticated view of his creative intentions by no means confirms. Neill shows how tendentious and traditional approaches that diminish or even traduce Hardy's literary achievement have achieved a cultural prominence that still gives a false impression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157113140X
• ISBN13: 9781571131409
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"