Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

by Robert Edgar, John Marland, Alan G. Smith

Book Overview

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501384031
• ISBN13: 9781501384035
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"