Isbn: 9780330481878 - thomas hardy: the guarded life (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 544 pages. Cover slightly worn, Text tanned Few writers are as strongly associated with a particular place as Thomas Hard y. His role as unofficial historian of Wessex has come to define his reputation, yet only hints at the complexities of a man who cultivated aristocratic friends , spent several months each year in London and wrote some of the most popular, b ut also most vilified, novels of the Victorian period. In The Guarded Life, Ralp h Pite explores these contradictions in the context of Hardy's relationships wit h women, friends and mentors; the social, family and work pressures he experienc ed; and his attachment to the Dorsetshire landscape. In doing so, he reveals the personal and emotional life of a public figure who has, despite his fame, remai ned largely obscure until now. 'Pite uses new critical techniques and perspectiv es to make his point .He is a subtle reader of Hardy's work and applies his im pressive reasoning to the man as if he, too, were a kind of text' Daily Telegrap h 'An impressive, and impressively human, book, Pite's skill is in balancing the larger sweep of Hardy's life with a sense for what happened at the edges. Like his subject, Pite takes risks with what he reveals, but the detail is always enl arging. Hardy, and his times, seem bigger for this work' New Statesman 'In portr aits, Hardy habitually looks downwards or aside, avoiding direct contact. In thi s biography, Pite has caught his subject's eyes and held his gaze' The Times 'Pi te is skilful, not to say ingenious, in drawing together emblems and instances o f secrecy .This new biography encourages us to re-examine Hardy's life as a co mplex and often self-contradictory whole; Pite's Hardy is altogether more vulner able than Hardy's version of himself, but also more likeable' Guardian.…

softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 544 p. ISBN: 9780330481878 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 376.