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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories
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ABSTRACT
Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Periodical publication
chapter 1|20 pages
Neither tales nor short stories? issues of authorship, readership, and publishing in A Group of Noble Dames
chapter 2|20 pages
“Moonlight nights”: Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News
part |2 pages
Part II Gender relationships
chapter 3|15 pages
“Getting life-leased at all cost”: marriage in Hardy’s late short stories
chapter 4|16 pages
Pregnant by a portrait: the dynamics of desire for Hardy’s “Imaginative Woman”
chapter 5|19 pages
“Imaginative sentiment”: love, letters, and literacy in Thomas Hardy’s shorter fiction
part |2 pages
Part III Community relationships
part |2 pages
Part IV Narrative technique