Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies - Hardcover

by T. Dolin (Editor), P. Widdowson (Editor)

For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.

Author Biography

TIM ARMSTRONG Reader in Modern English and American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK GUY DAVIDSON Teaches in the English Studies and Communications and Cultural Studies Programs, University of Wollongong, Australia SIMON DURING Teaches at Johns Hopkins University, USA TERRY EAGLETON Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK ROGER EBBATSON Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK MICHAEL HOLLINGTON Professor at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France J. HILLIS MILLER UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Irvine, 1986 BRETT NEILSON Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia MARY RIMMER Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada LINDA M. SHIRES Professor of English, Syracuse University