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Hardy and His Readers

Hardy and His Readers

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333962605
ISBN13: 9780333962602
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 25 2003
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Initially content to compromise, to provide them with congenial entertainment, Hardy resorted at first to strategies of subversion, smuggling material past his editors and finally to outspoken attack. Professor T. R. Wright attempts to balance historical research into the response of 'actual' readers and the material conditions of publishing with literary-critical analysis of the 'implied' reader inscribed in the novels themselves.

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