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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories book

New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy's Short Stories

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories book

New Perspectives
Edited ByJuliette Berning Schaefer, Siobhan Craft Brownson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 17 November 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315551036
Pages 214
eBook ISBN 9781315551036
Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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Berning Schaefer, J., & Craft Brownson, S. (Eds.). (2016). Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315551036

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

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Edited ByJuliette Berning Schaefer, Siobhan Craft Brownson

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

ByNoble Dames GRAHAM LAW

chapter 2|20 pages

“Moonlight nights”: Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News

ByLondon News SIOBHAN CRAFT BROWNSON

part |2 pages

Part II Gender relationships

chapter 3|15 pages

“Getting life-leased at all cost”: marriage in Hardy’s late short stories

BySUZANNE J. FLYNN

chapter 4|16 pages

Pregnant by a portrait: the dynamics of desire for Hardy’s “Imaginative Woman”

ByDEBORAH MANION

chapter 5|19 pages

“Imaginative sentiment”: love, letters, and literacy in Thomas Hardy’s shorter fiction

ByKARIN KOEHLER

part |2 pages

Part III Community relationships

chapter 6|18 pages

Hardy and humor: the mores of Wessex

ByJULIETTE BERNING SCHAEFER

chapter 7|18 pages

Love, deception, and disguise in A Few Crusted Characters

ByJOANNA STEPHENS MINK

part |2 pages

Part IV Narrative technique

chapter 8|16 pages

“To correct the misrelation”: reading Hardy’s Wessex Tales NEELANJANA BASU

Edited ByJuliette Berning Schaefer, Siobhan Craft Brownson

chapter 9|18 pages

Representations of the body in Hardy’s Life’s Little Ironies

ByCAROLINA PAGANINE

chapter 10|16 pages

Hardy’s mercurial narrator: “breaking the frame” in “A Changed Man”

ByKEITH CALLIS
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