Author: Judith Caffrey FoysPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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A Critical Analysis of A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
Author: Judith Caffrey FoysA Group of Noble Dames
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473376440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Studies Toward a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
Author: Alyssa Diane LeavellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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This dissertation makes steps toward a complete critical edition of Thomas Hardy's second book of short stories, A Group of Noble Dames. It includes introductory essays describing the publication history of the stories and the general categories of changes that Hardy made for the editions published during his lifetime. A Group of Noble Dames contains ten short stories in total, which are united by a framing narrative. According to Hardy's preface to the Wessex Novels edition of the text published in 1896, the stories were inspired by genealogies and legends of the families of local nobility and landed gentry in the southwest of England, although the stories were dramatized with "motives, passions, and personal qualities" that Hardy imagined (v). This dissertation contains the edited text of five of the short stories, with a textual apparatus containing all substantive and accidental changes. "The First Countess of Wessex," "Squire Petrick's Lady," "The Lady Penelope," "The Duchess of Hamptonshire," and "The Honourable Laura" have been chosen for inclusion in this study because they were all published in separate serial magazines before being collected, and therefore they represent every stage in the publication history. The work presented in this dissertation will contribute toward the first critical edition of A Group of Noble Dames to date. As G. Thomas Tanselle discusses in his book A Rationale of Textual Criticism, a critical edition provides scholars with a reliable and accurate text for future scholarship; additionally "any text that a textual critic produces is itself the product of literary criticism, reflecting a particular aesthetic position and thus a particular approach to what textual 0́correctness' consists of" (35). This dissertation uses the 1891 first edition as copy text, the earliest version to have all ten stories collected together within the framing narrative. Substantive variants from all revised editions are listed in footnotes keyed to the text. A complete list of accidental variants is included as an appendix, along with lists of editorial emendations. This will allow readers the option of reconstructing the version of the text that they deem most suitable for their research purposes.
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Author: Sophie GilmartinPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748632557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781433089374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A Group of Noble Dames, by Thomas Hardy a Novel (World's Classics)
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534885066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. Contents Part I-Before Dinner The First Countess of Wessex by the local historian Barbara of the House of Grebe by the old surgeon The Marchioness of Stonehenge by the rural dean Lady Mottisfont by the sentimental member Part II-After Dinner The Lady Icenway by the churchwarden Squire Petrick's Lady by the crimson maltster Anna, Lady Baxby by the colonel The Lady Penelope by the man of family The Duchess Of Hamptonshire by the quiet gentleman The Honourable Laura by the spark Publication All ten stories were published in serial magazines before Hardy collected them into book form. "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" and "The Honourable Laura" were written relatively early in Hardy's career, in 1878 and 1881 respectively. "The First Countess of Wessex" and "The Lady Penelope" were written in 1888-89. Hardy revised all four of these stories significantly before adding them to the collection in 1891. The remaining six stories were written in early 1890 and published in bowdlerised form in a special Christmas number of The Graphic in December 1890. Hardy collected all ten stories together for the first time in A Group of Noble Dames, which was published in England by Osgood, McIlvaine, & Co. and in America by Harper & Brothers in 1891. The critical reception of the book was mixed.. Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.Charles Dickens was another important influence.[page needed] Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's poetry, though prolific, was not as well received during his lifetime. It was rediscovered in the 1950s, when Hardy's poetry had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Philip Larkin.Most of his fictional works - initially published as serials in magazines - were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England...
A Group of Noble Dames
Author: Thomas HardyA Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy (Original Classics)
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523913183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories by great English novelist Thomas Hardy. The ten stories focus on "store of ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence". Hardy delves into the hidden depths of country families to reveal what went on behind the scenes. Part I - Before Dinner The First Countess of Wessex Barbara of the House of Grebe The Marchioness of Stonehenge Lady Mottisfont Part II - After Dinner The Lady Icenway Squire Petrick's Lady Anna, Lady Baxby The Lady Penelope The Duchess Of Hamptonshire The Honourable Laura Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author: Keith WilsonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118398513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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
Author: Thomas Hardy