Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry Codes of Bereavement /

This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Har...

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Main Author: Benziman, Galia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Poetry.
ISBN:9781137507136
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Elegy, Discourses of Grieving, and Figuring the Dead
  • 2. "Hands behind hands": Seeing the Dead
  • 3. "Spectres that grieve": The Dead Speak
  • 4. "Still corporeally imminent": Hardy's revenants
  • 5. "For she won't know": Utilizing the dead
  • 6. "I do but the phantom retain": The mistrust of memory.

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