Thomas Hardy's Pastoral: An Unkindly May

By Indy Clark

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113750501X
• ISBN13: 9781137505019
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"