HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01060 7/1/01 "JULY 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS" =========================================================== Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 15:36:38 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for July Earlier today I posted Hardy's "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for July, 2001. This discussion will be the eighth and last in a series dedicated to Hardy poems with female narrators. I invite your contributions to a month-long, on-line conversation about this tragic Hardy ballad--the poem which, according to his wife Florence, he considered "upon the whole, his most successful poem." You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://netforum.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1/ Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)] and while the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems as well as those concerning "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), and "A Singer Asleep" (July), are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), "The Lacking Sense" (April), "In a Wood" (May), and "To Outer Nature" and "June Leaves and Autumn" (June), "Wagtail and Baby" and "On a Midsummer Eve" (July), "Afterwards" (August), "Shut Out That Moon" (September), "The Last Chrysanthemum" and "The Year's Awakening" (October), "The Night of the Dance" (November), and "The Dark-Eyed Gentleman" (December), "She At His Funeral" and "Her Confession" (January), "Tess's Lament" and "The Pine-Planters" (February), "The Pink Frock" and "The Beauty" (March), "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town" and "An Upbraiding" (April), "The Chapel-Organist" (May), and "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy" (June) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the July 2001 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:41:44 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: A Reminder : Dear Members, When responding to an earlier message please only retain the passages from it to which you are directly referring. If you allow a long message, or even several messages, to be repeated with your own contribution other members' mailboxes can be filled to overflowing. This is especially important over the summer months when many people ar away from their computers for substantial periods of time. Your cooperation very much appreciated. Betty Cortus ========== Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:48:55 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Character of Tess Well-- in a sense, Joan, we do have someone "collecting" our comments, "always." In actual fact we do! His name is John Cortus and he silently collects and files all Forum "comments" and mails them, every single comment beautifully compiled, to me - monthly - whereupon I put them into a *FORUM ARCHIVES" page and post online accordingly. It's all there, m'dear--down to your very last sigh ! Blessed Be John C. And With Grateful Thanks to All Who Work Behind the Scenes, Best wishes, RM At 05:20 PM 7/5/01 -0600, you wrote: >Thanks to Michael Barry for "collecting" our comments - wish we had >just such a person always. Hoping the production is successful, I'll >add "break a leg!" Joan Sheski ========== Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 10:18:57 +0100 From: Birgit Plietzsch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) Subject: Novels Page Dear All This is just to say that not all pages of the Novels Page are functional at present. We experienced another www server crash yesterday during which, unfortunately, some of the material that is online got damaged. I'm working at restoring the Novels Page and hope to get it back online in its complete form asap. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Best wishes Birgit ========== Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:55:17 +0100 From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Novels Page I have now restored the Novels Page, and things are back to normal ... till the next server crash, that is ;-) Best wishes Birgit ========== Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:13:31 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Novels Page CONGRATULATIONS Birgit! We all appreciate your good work. Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:06:27 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Leaving this List A few weeks ago I reminded members how to unsubscribe correctly from this list, so that such messages do not go to the list itself, therefore adding unwanted mail to every member's mailbox. Here are the instructions once again. Simply send an e-mail to: HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu then write the word unsubscribe in the subject or re line. Do NOT write anything in the body of the message or your attempt will be invalidated. Please keep a copy of these instrucions on hand if you think you may need them in the future. Your cooperation very much appreciated, Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== From: "Robert Goddard" Subject: Tess on Radio4 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:52:25 +0100 Dear All, I thought that you might be interested to learn that BBC Radio4 is to broadcast as its classic serial "Tess" on this coming Sunday, July 29. Further details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/genre/genre_drama.shtml#classic With best wishes, Robert (Goddard) ========== Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:57:25 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Quiet Time! This being a quiet time on TTHA FORUM (the dogdays of summer) I'll be re-posting a few seasonal messages for those who are new subscribers--so here goes: ___________ 1_____ ON TTHA "PROMOTIONS"! The Redcliffe English Study Centre in beautiful Teignmouth, Devon, offers scholarly courses on Hardy together with walks/tours through the Wessex countryside; accommodation is organised with local host families. Brian Davidson, who runs these courses, is an Oxford graduate -- find him, and others, at: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:13:27 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: QUIET TIME/ 2 This being a quiet time on TTHA FORUM (the dogdays of summer) I'll be re-posting a few seasonal messages for those who are new subscribers--so here goes: ___________ 2_____ TTHA's annual publication, The Hardy Review, Volume III, 2000 has been succeeded by the latest edition of TTHA *Occasional Series, Volume II; The Emma Poems* now available for orders. Further information will follow; those who participated in this online "Emma poems" seminar on TTHA POTM might wish to order more than one copy--it is a limited edition. Contact me at: rm82@pantheon.yale.edu/hardysoc. _________________ > and every good wish, > > Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:18:28 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: QUIET TIME/3 This being a quiet time on TTHA FORUM (the dogdays of summer) I'll be re-posting a few seasonal messages for those who are new subscribers--so here goes: ___________ 3_____ Cut-off date: November 1 2001. I'm hosting a half-day symposium at the next TH International Conference in Dorchester, July 2002. My topic will be "Hardy and Dance" and submissions should be sent to me by email attachment and >should not take longer than 20 minutes to deliver. > >I look forward to hearing from you. > With every good wish, > > Rosemarie Morgan PS--I will be in touch with those (who have already submitted papers) in late November 2001 ========== LAST of 4 postings: This being a quiet time on TTHA FORUM (the dogdays of summer) I'll be re-posting a few seasonal messages for those who are new subscribers--so here goes: ___________ 4_____ Available at discount for TTHA & THSoc members: please contact me for the discount form at: rm82@pantheon.yale.edu and please quote your membership number Now AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! The Life of Thomas Hardy by Paul Turner Readers might be interested to hear that Blackwell Publishers are offering a special 30% discount on the new paperback edition of The Life of Thomas Hardy for members of the Thomas Hardy Society and Thomas Hardy Association. This is quite a new kind of critical biography - not just a biography with some literary criticism thrown in, but a systematic attempt to show, book by book, how an author's life suggested and affected his complete works. Each chapter deals with a single book and comprises two sections, one biographical, one critical. Together they relate in a concise by readable and drily humorous style, all of the important facts known about Hardy's life, and then offer a fresh perspective on the individual books. Here 'life' includes not merely external experiences, but also and especially internal ones, eg. his reading of literature and his experience of music and visual art. For the study concentrates on Hardy's inner life, expressed largely in his own words, drawn from his letters, notes, diaries, and the autobiography that he wrote himself, but got his second wife to publish as her own biography of him. From this inner life came the creative promptings for each book. Now, for the first time, such promptings are examined comprehensively and in detail - from the description of Hardy's childhood home in under the Greenwood Tree to the heavy cold that he caught in May 1906, and passed on to Napoleon in The Dynasts. Paul Turner's examination reveals a wealth of new perspectives on Hardy. In particular, he focuses on: * Hardy's use of Greek and Latin literature * The importance of animals in his life and work * His concern with the unconscious * His marriages * The influence of Victorian authors * Other forms of input from Hardy's life ____________ END OF MESSAGE ========== Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:01:56 -0400 Subject: Re: Hardy postings on the Victorian Web From: "Philip & Andrea Allingham" Dear Bob, Here are some recent additions to the cache of Hardy material on Landow's Victorian Web: Robert Barnes's Illustrations for the 1886 Weekly Serialised Version of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/illustration/barnes/barne s2.html Robert Barnes's Illustration for Ch. 39 of Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Lakehead University, Ontario http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/illustration/barnes/barne s3.html John Collier (1850-1934) -- A Late Pre-Raphaelite Painter and Illustrator Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/art/illustration/collier/pva133.html List of Collier's Plates for *The Trumpet-Major* and of Discussions of Several Sequences http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/art/illustration/collier/ John Collier's Thirty-Three Plates for Hardy's The Trumpet-Major in Good Words Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/illustration/collier/pva1 36.html Inconsistencies in Collier's Plates for The Trumpet-Major Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/illustration/collier/pva1 38.html Collier's First Five Plates for Hardy's The Trumpet-Major Philip V. Allingham, Contributiong Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/illustration/collier/pva1 37.html Hamartia in Thomas Hardy's Ballad "The Trampwoman's Tragedy"--Another Instance of "Introspective Inflexibility"? Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/authors/hardy/pva131.html Discussion Questions on Thomas Hardy's "Channel Firing" (1914) Philip V. Allingham, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/authors/hardy/pva114.html Questions Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies (1871) Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/authors/hardy/pva120.html The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Questions on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University (Canada) http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/authors/hardy/pva121.html