Book description
Through original essays from a distinguished team of international
scholars and Hardy specialists,
A Companion to Thomas Hardy
provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects
of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry
- Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical
debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars
- Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy's
major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama
- Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and
socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for
subsequent writers
Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of
Ottawa. He is the author of Thomas Hardy on Stage (1995),
editor of the Penguin Classics editions of The Mayor of
Casterbridge (1997; 2003) and The Fiddler of the Reels and
Other Stories (2003, with Kristin Brady), and editor of
Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael
Millgate (2006). He is also the co-editor, with Michael Millgate,
of the 8th volume of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy
, and editor for the forthcoming Cambridge edition of
Tess of the d'Urbervilles. In addition to his work on Hardy, he
has also published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British
literature, Victorian and Edwardian music hall, and the literary
representation of London.
