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Margaret Elvy
SEXING HARDY: THOMAS HARDY AND FEMINISM By Margaret Levy There are surprisingly few feminist analyses of the work of British novelist Thomas Hardy, and most do not get beyond vague…
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There are surprisingly few feminist analyses of Hardy, and most do not get beyond vague notions of sexism and misogynism, in the Kate Millett manner. Elvy’s book, however, uses up-to-date…
An anthology of great nature poems, including the Elizabethan pastorals of Spenser, Shakespeare, Raleigh and Drayton, and classics of nature mysticism by Chaucer, Langland, Thomson, Blake and Wordsworth, among others…
MARGARET ELVY
THOMAS HARDY’S JUDE THE OBSCURE
A study of Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory.
Illustrated, with notes and a bibiography.
Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy’s last…
THOMAS HARDY’S JUDE THE OBSCURE A study of the novel Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory.
Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas…
Though now considered an important work of English literature, Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles’ received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores…
An anthology of great nature poems, including the Elizabethan pastorals of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh and Michael Drayton.
Thomas Hardy
A new edition of Thomas Hardy’s last novel Jude the Obscure 1895), a sister (or brother) book to Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), before the author turned to poetry and…
A new edition of Thomas Hardy’s 1878 novel The Return of the Native, with an introduction and notes by Margaret Elvy.
D. H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence’s strident and idiosyncratic evocations of sex, touch, Spring, flowers, nature, love, black suns, fish and other glories are gathered here in this new selection.
