Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory

by Tim Armstrong

Book Overview

Hardy was a poet of ghosts. In his poetry he describes himself as posthumous; as rekindling the cinders of passion; as the guardian of the dead forgotten by history; and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333597915
• ISBN13: 9780333597910
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.8"