Thomas Hardy : half a Londoner
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Central - Adult Biography
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvi, 305 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and his achievement as a writer. Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner presents a detailed account of Hardy's London experiences, from his arrival as a shy, impressionable youth, to his embrace of radical views, to his lionization by upper-class hostesses eager to fête the creator of Tess. Drawing on Hardy's poems, letters, fiction, and autobiography, it offers a subtle, moving exploration of the author's complex relationship with the metropolis and those he met or observed there: publishers, fellow authors, street-walkers, benighted lovers, and the aristocratic women who adored his writing but spurned his romantic advances. The young Hardy's oscillations between the routines and concerns of Dorset's Higher Bockhampton and the excitements and dangers of London were crucial to his profound sense of being torn between mutually dependent but often mutually uncomprehending worlds. This fundamental self-division, Ford argues, can be traced not only in the poetry and fiction explicitly set in London but in novels as regionally circumscribed as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ford, M. (2016). Thomas Hardy: half a Londoner . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. 2016. Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark. Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
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