Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form

by Penny Boumelha

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. Penny Boumelha here examines his writing in the light of its central concern with women and marriage.

The author traces Hardy's development from the early novels, in which the male and female natures are polarities, to the later fictions. This culminated in Jude the Obscure, in which there are marked similarities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911454714
• ISBN13: 9781911454717
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"