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2952828Thomas Hardyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/thomas-hardy-9780674973305/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2963053/7e5fef5b-0b28-4b72-aaaa-327963ed2ef3.jpg?v=638384692154900000620861MXNHarvard University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and his achievement as a writer.</p><p><em>Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner</em> presents a detailed account of Hardys London experiences, from his arrival as a shy, impressionable youth, to his embrace of radical views, to his lionization by upper-class hostesses eager to fte the creator of Tess. Drawing on Hardys poems, letters, fiction, and autobiography, it offers a subtle, moving exploration of the authors complex relationship with the metropolis and those he met or observed there: publishers, fellow authors, street-walkers, benighted lovers, and the aristocratic women who adored his writing but spurned his romantic advances.</p><p>The young Hardys oscillations between the routines and concerns of Dorsets Higher Bockhampton and the excitements and dangers of London were crucial to his profound sense of being torn between mutually dependent but often mutually uncomprehending worlds. This fundamental self-division, Ford argues, can be traced not only in the poetry and fiction explicitly set in London but in novels as regionally circumscribed as <em>Far from the Madding Crowd</em> and <em>Tess of the dUrbervilles</em>.</p>...2888818Thomas Hardy620861https://www.gandhi.com.mx/thomas-hardy-9780674973305/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2963053/7e5fef5b-0b28-4b72-aaaa-327963ed2ef3.jpg?v=638384692154900000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780674973305_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9780674973305_<p>Because Thomas Hardys poetry and fiction are so closely associated with Wessex, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner, moving between country and capital throughout his life. This self-division, Mark Ford says, can be traced not only in works explicitly set in London but in his most regionally circumscribed novels.</p>(*_*)9780674973305_<p>Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and his achievement as a writer.</p><p><em>Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner</em> presents a detailed account of Hardys London experiences, from his arrival as a shy, impressionable youth, to his embrace of radical views, to his lionization by upper-class hostesses eager to fte the creator of Tess. Drawing on Hardys poems, letters, fiction, and autobiography, it offers a subtle, moving exploration of the authors complex relationship with the metropolis and those he met or observed there: publishers, fellow authors, street-walkers, benighted lovers, and the aristocratic women who adored his writing but spurned his romantic advances.</p><p>The young Hardys oscillations between the routines and concerns of Dorsets Higher Bockhampton and the excitements and dangers of London were crucial to his profound sense of being torn between mutually dependent but often mutually uncomprehending worlds. This fundamental self-division, Ford argues, can be traced not only in the poetry and fiction explicitly set in London but in novels as regionally circumscribed as <em>Far from the Madding Crowd</em> and <em>Tess of the dUrbervilles</em>.</p>...9780674973305_Harvard University Presslibro_electonico_a7f70bd9-ceb7-3eac-948c-5e415bb6eda1_9780674973305;9780674973305_9780674973305Mark FordInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harvard_trade-epub-541cb29b-bc50-4c32-b1a9-661416440aa6.epub2016-10-10T00:00:00+00:00Harvard University Press