HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0094 11/13/00 "HARDY AND RECENT CRITICISM" ======================================================= From: "Rob Abbott" Subject: Viewpoints on Hardy Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:14:51 -0000 I have only just discovered this group and rather wish I'd found it before. I am co-writing a new book on Hardy to be published by Hodder and Stoughton in their 'Beginner's Guides series'Ê I am struggling a little with the chapter on modern critical approaches. Peter Widdowson makes the point that Hardy is rarely fertile ground for the establishment of a particular school of thought and also that there has not been as much critical attention paid to the poetry as one might expect.Ê Nonetheless I have found some useful material in the two New casebooks on Tess and Jude and the Cambridge Companion has been another useful read. I have also just got via the British library Charles Pettit's excellent reading Thomas Hardy. However, am struggling to find any new historicist analyses of Hardy's Work. I should mention that the book is aimed at first year undergraduate level and the critical approaches chapter is only abut 4-5,000 words. Enjoying the posts I've had so far. Best wishes to all Rob Abbott Rob@hobacus.fsnet.co.uk Chichester, UK ========== Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:07:37 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Re: Viewpoints on Hardy Dear Rob, First, welcome to the Hardy list. I hope you find it informative and entertaining. There is a good overview of Hardy criticism in the _Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy_, ed. Norman Page, (2000). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have anything to say about Hardy and New Historicism. It does, however, end with a note saying that Charles Lock's _Thomas Hardy: Criticism in Focus_ (1992) contains "a neat summary of all Hardy criticism from the beginning until 1990." I haven't seen this book myself, but it might be worth looking at. All the Best, Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ===========