Thomas Hardy's Pastoral

Zusatztext

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.

Autorenportrait

Indy Clark teaches at the University of Queensland, Australia. His doctoral thesis on Thomas Hardy's poetry received the 2013 Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence. His other publications include: 'Imagined Villages and Knowable Communities: Work and the Pastoral in Thomas Hardy's Poetry' in Pockets of Change (2011), and articles for the Hardy Society Journal and Colloquy.

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