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 to encode in fiction his
troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country,
where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown
how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later
stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period
when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging
fiction for poetry.
Features
*The only book to provide comprehensive criticism of Hardy's
entire output of short stories.
*The provision of extremely full, extremely detailed, close
readings of a number of key stories enhances the book's
attractiveness as a potential teaching resource.
*Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the
background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly
uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional
Wessex.
*Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his
mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding
of erratic men and women.
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