Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (Victorian Literature & Culture Ser.)

Gatrell, Simon

ISBN 10: 0813914353 / ISBN 13: 9780813914350

Published by University Press of Virginia,, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A., 1993

About this Item

Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-78291186

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (Victorian Literature & Culture Ser.)
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia,, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813914353
• ISBN 13: 9780813914350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Thomas Hardy Studies

About this title

Synopsis

Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world- with other men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment, and with the supernatural. He focuses on the importance of community in Hardy's fiction, especially on the ability of rural villages and towns to withstand the stresses of industrialized agriculture and the national standardization of education and culture.

About the Author

Simon Gatrell is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. His published works include Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography, editions of several of Hardy's novels and fictional manuscripts, and a bibliography of George Crabbe (with Tony Bareham).