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Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life ...

Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life ...

William A. Davis

... the dream-world of books.''" If this is indeed Hardy's admission, then it would appear that Hardy is again being somewhat misleading, this time about his novels. Hardy's novels certainly do not seem to come from a "dream-world," nor do they ...
The Hardy Review

The Hardy Review

Rosemarie Morgan

Brief description of The Hardy Review The Hardy Review is the journal of The Thomas Hardy Association and is the premier journal devoted to the scholarly study of Thomas Hardy.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and ...
The Hardy Review, XV-I

The Hardy Review, XV-I

Rosemarie Morgan

The Hardy Review is a publication of The Thomas Hardy Association and is the premier journal devoted to the scholarly study of Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate

Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate

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In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars.
Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams ...

Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams ...

Karin Koehler

Phillip Mallett's 'Thomas Hardy and Time', Trish Ferguson's 'Hardy's Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity', and Ken Ireland's recent book Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative: A Narratological Approach to His Novels (2014) testify to ...
Thomas Hardy in Our Time

Thomas Hardy in Our Time

Robert Woodrow Langbaum

Taking into account the latest criticism, Langbaum discusses Hardy's fiction and poetry from various contemporary points of view so as to show Hardy as a still-powerful literary presence.
Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair

Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair

Elizabeth McNeill

With a cool detachment that makes the experiences and sensations she describes all the more frightening in their intensity, Elizabeth McNeill deftly unfolds her story and invites you into the mesmerizing and dangerous world of Nine and a ...
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy: The Novels

Thomas Hardy: The Novels

Norman Page

Rosemarie Morgan, Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1992) For entirely understandable reasons, Hardy's fiction has in recent years received a considerable amount of attention from feminist critics such as Penny Boumelha, ...
Hip-hop homophobia - the evolution: the origins, the ...

Hip-hop homophobia - the evolution: the origins, the ...

Matthew William Blanton

In his interview with Eric Darnell Pritchard, author James Earl Hardy claims, "gay is still very much a white thing."4" In this instance, Hardy laments America's pervasive and provincial notion that racially pigeonholes homosexuality. Commonly ...
The Thomas Hardy Journal

The Thomas Hardy Journal

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TRIAL AND ERROR IN THOMAS HARDY'S LEGAL FICTIONS TRISH FERGUSON Thomas Hardy held the role of Justice of the Peace, or borough magistrate, from 1884 to 1912. In an interview with The World in 1886 he stated that 'he played ...
Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

Rosemarie Morgan

The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words' which were the result of a long struggle with Sir Leslie Stephen, Hardy's editor.
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.
Optima for Animals

Optima for Animals

R. McNeill Alexander

In this revised edition of R. McNeill Alexander's widely acclaimed 'Optima for Animals, ' we see how extraordinarily diverse branches of biology are illuminated by the powerful methods of optimization theory.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Under the Greenwood Tree, ed. Tim Dolin. London: Penguin. Hardy, Thomas ([ 1873] 1998) A Pair of Blue Eyes, ed. Pamela Dalziel. London: Penguin. Hardy, Thomas ([1874] 2000). Far From the Madding Crowd, ed. Rosemarie Morgan, with ...
Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Kate Hardy

Kate Hardy. Kate Hardy Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling Praise for Kate Hardy, who writes for both Harlequin® MedicalTM.
Authors in Context: Thomas Hardy

Authors in Context: Thomas Hardy

Patricia Ingham

Part of new OWC series, Authors in Context, Thomas Hardy is a critical companion to the OWC Hardy editions.
Thomas Hardy's Poetry and Existentialism

Thomas Hardy's Poetry and Existentialism

Mallikarjun Patil

The Book Is A Scholarly Work Which Throws Ample Light On Hardy, A Poet-Thinker So Far A Neglected Genius.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Twelve commissioned essays provide an essential introduction to Thomas Hardy.
Dead Irish: (Dismas Hardy 1)

Dead Irish: (Dismas Hardy 1)

John Lescroart

An ex-policeman, ex-husband and ex-lawyer, Dismas Hardy is now a barman wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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Critical essays examine Thomas Hardy's poetry and fiction.
Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s ...

Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s ...

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'Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection' by Susan Hardy Aiken, copyright © Susan Hardy Aiken 1985, reprinted by permission of Susan Hardy Aiken. ' Remembrance' by Annette Kuhn, copyright © Annette Kuhn 1991, reprinted by ...
What Was The Film When? The Movies of Laurel and Hardy

What Was The Film When? The Movies of Laurel and Hardy

Mark Potts

Most film critics and Laurel and Hardy stalwarts would probably award the honour to either and Laurel and Hardy stalwarts would probably award the honour to either and Laurel and Hardy stalwarts would probably award the honour to either ...
Hardy Spaces on Homogeneous Groups

Hardy Spaces on Homogeneous Groups

G. B. Folland

The object of this monograph is to give an exposition of the real-variable theory of Hardy spaces (HP spaces).
Thomas Hardy in Context

Thomas Hardy in Context

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TRISH FERGUSON Given his status as the Great Man of Victorian Letters, honoured by Cambridge and Oxford, awarded the Order of Merit and con— sidered for Poet Laureate, it is curious to find that Hardy was not well known as a public ...
Thomas Hardy: his career as a novelist

Thomas Hardy: his career as a novelist

Michael Millgate

Although the central chapters are predominantly critical, offering independent readings of each of the novels (including those customarily considered 'minor'), those readings are developed within the context of available knowledge of Hardy ...
War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation ...

War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation ...

Lisa M. Brady

John R. McNeill and William Storey have provided feedback through numerous venues and have graciously agreed to present their excellent work alongside mine at several conferences and meetings. Kevin Marsh and Adam Sowards, my  ...

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