Hardy's Landscape Revisited

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Thomas Hardy was a landscape novelist, who painted pictures of a real outdoor world that formed the stage upon which his characters lived out their tragic lives. Incorporating extracts from Hardy's poems and novels such as "Return of the Native", and "Under the Greenwood Tree", this book consists of a series of walks through Hardy's landscapes.
Hardy’s Landscape Revisited is a twenty-first century look at Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, consisting of a series of described walks through the novelist’s literary landscapes. Based upon the texts of The Return of the Native, Far From the Madding Crowd, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, as well as incorporating excerpts from Hardy’s poems, Tony Fincham’s book allows the reader to appreciate the real world which formed the fictional stages.

The author argues that Hardy’s landscapes, at once specific and general; based on real places and yet purposefully distanced and disguised, are an outward extension of a very narrow territory encompassing locations which, in “reality”, lay very close to the thatched cottage on Egdon Heath where Hardy was born.
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Author Tony Fincham
Availability IP
Department Great Britain and Ireland
Format Hardback
ISBN 9780709086994
Pages 256
Published 01/07/2010
Publisher Robert Hale
Section GB: General Travel Guides
Size Unfolded 16x24cm
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