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?Subject: ?TTHA Poem of the Month for January
?Date: ?January 1, 2004 6:07:14 PM PST
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "Afterwards" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for January, 2004. This discussion will be the fifth in a series dedicated to the poems that appear last in Hardy's 8 volumes of verse. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about the poems--and the idea of ending--over the course of the month.
As usual, 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 tohttp://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, 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 wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message.
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 WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you:
Besides this month's discussion and those of January ("Winter Night in Woodland"), February ("Ice on the Highway"), March ("A Light Snow-Fall After Frost"), April ("The Sheep-Boy"), May ("A Sheep Fair" and "Last Look round St. Martin's Fair"), June ("A Backward Spring," "Last Week in October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead"), July ("No Buyers" and "An East-End Curate"), August ("Life and Death at Sunrise"), September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November ("A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), and December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), a full year of conversations in 2002 about some of Hardy's sonnets are available at the site: April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind"), September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), October ("Embarcation" and "Departure), November ("The Pity of It" and "Often When Warring"), and December ("We Are Getting to the End" and "Thoughts from Sophocles").
The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site and open for contributions.
The discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") have been published in *The Hardy Review*, V (Winter 2002).
All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are moved to the Members' Resource section of the TTHA website or edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers.
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)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above).
Happy New Year and welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for January of 2004.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
?????Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
?From: ? rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
?Subject: ?Re: MORE Seasonal Frolics
?Date: ?January 3, 2004 12:26:45 PM PST
Julian-- TTHA Member-of-the-Year!
Congratulations!
I hope this finds you back on your feet.
*Emma* is on its way to cheer you!
See you in Dorchester --
With every good wish,
Rosemarie.
:01 AM 12/31/2003 +0000, you wrote:
Dear Rosemarie, Bob, Bill and Friends,
Thank you so much for this wonderful surprise honour.
All best wishes for a happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year.
Sincerely,
Julian
?From: ? rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
?Subject: ?Re: Seasonal Frolics-- WINNER
?Date: ?January 3, 2004 12:35:24 PM PST
Congratulations to Mark Simons-- winner of TTHA's 2003 "Seasonal Frolics!"
Please send me the title of your TTHA publication of choice, Mark, and it
will be mailed off to you pronto!
On behalf of the team here at TTHA may I wish you the very best for the New
Year and health and happiness in the years to come!
Cheers,
Rosemarie
At 09:27 AM 12/9/2003 -0600, you wrote:
The lines are: "Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle" from The Hand of Ethelberta, Ch. 9.
The lines are spoken at a party by a guest who also describes Ethelberta as "being of that curious undefined character which interprets itself to each admirer as whatever he would like to have it."
As to their significance, it could be a political reference to the British Constitution which, I'm told, has no definitive text. Therefore, it seems to be used as a metaphor for Ethelberta's ability to pass, survive, and succeed in any group by keeping her true self in check and letting her peers do the work for her. It's been a few years since I last read it thoroughly, but I remember the novel being concerned with class and rank and that sort of wonderful Victorian anxiety.
Also it could refer to constitution, meaning overall health or "hardyness."
If this is the case, my medical background is non-existent so I can't really comment on the physical well-being of the British . . .
Addtionally, the words are inscribed on the side of a cliff, which makes it mildly ironic since one of the themes of the story is, to phrase it awkwardly, shifting perceptions. And cliffs are . . . well . . . rocks.
They are not permanent, but certainly more "concrete" than the perception of many in Ethelberta.
Sorry in advance for the awkwardness -- words escape me until I've had my pot of coffee . . .
Mark Simons (mws@ripco.com)
?From: ? srogers@sju.edu
?Subject: ?New on the REVIEWS Page!
?Date: ?January 5, 2004 12:43:23 PM PST
Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction, reviewed
by Betty Cortus.
The Reviews Page is located in the MRR site of the TTHA pages, and can be accessed through the MRR link on the TTHA front page: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
I would like to invite responses from any author whose work has been reviewed on the page, past or present.
Because the Reviews Page is on the MRR site, and requires password access, if you are one of the authors in question and are not a TTHA member, I can provide a copy of the review of your work to you upon request.
If you are a member, but do not have your access number, or if you are interested in becoming a member of TTHA, please contact Rosemarie Morgan: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
If you are an author or publisher and would like to submit materials for review, please contact me at: shannon.rogers@sju.edu
A selection of reviews posted to the site will eventually be published formally in print.
Best,
Shannon
Shannon L. Rogers
General Editor
Book Reviews Page
The Thomas Hardy Association
?From: ? rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
?Subject: ?TTHA *Member's Research Resources* Page.
?Date: ?January 5, 2004 10:20:23 PM PST
Greetings ALL:
This is just to say that TTHA's *Member's Research Resources* page (MRR) has undergone its annual password-logon change.
All TTHA members registered on the database have been notified of the new password for 2004. If anyone has been accidentally overlooked please let me know straight away.
And while I am here, I'd like to encourage members to contact Professor Shannon Rogers (srogers@sju.edu) if they feel they can contribute reviews and rejoinders to the *Book Reviews* page (Shannon hopes soon to expand this page to take in Film reviews), and Professor Robert Schweik (schweikr@localnet.com) still seeks scholars to help maintain the groundbreaking *Checklist* page. TTHA's *Checklist* - which prides itself on currency and depth --is the most comprehensive listing in existence. But there may still be the odd foreign-language journal or rare publication out there - if so, we would welcome news of the same, please!
Happy New Year to One and All!
Cheers,
Rosemarie
?From: ? rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
?Subject: ?Re: Cambridge Mini Conference Accounts
?Date: ?January 15, 2004 9:41:03 PM PST
Greetings All:
This is just to say that the accounts for the Cambridge Mini Conference have been posted on TTHA's *Bylaws* Page at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/accounts.htm
for your information.
Cheers,
Rosemarie Morgan
(President)
?From: ? hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
?Subject: ?Reminder
?Date: ?January 19, 2004 10:20:14 AM PST
?Reply-To: ? HARDY-L@csusm.edu
To Rosemarie's timely reminder about not sending messages with attachments to the Forum let me add another perennial quibble.
Please delete the earlier message(s) to which you are making a reply. Repeating them in their entirety causes an anguished tearing out of hair on the part of our trusty archivist, who still has to up-load all Forum messages manually each month, despite the advent of the updated searchable version. It also over-stuffs members mail boxes. If necessary for the sake of clarity, just retain the essential portion to which you are actually responding and delete the rest.
Many Thanks,
Betty
?From: ? schweik@fredonia.edu
?Subject: ?Fwd: North American Victorian Studies Association CFP: 2/16/04
?Date: ?January 23, 2004 4:31:50 PM PST
Friends,
I thought the following announcement might be of interest to some of you.
Bob Schweik
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From: navsa@purdue.edu
Subject: North American Victorian Studies Association CFP:
2/16/04
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:03:16 -0500
Victorian Frontiers
The Second Annual Conference of the
NORTH AMERICAN VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Toronto 28-31 October 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
NAVSA was established in 2002 to encourage a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches to the study of the Victorian period and to further the interests of Victorianists in the profession. Annual conferences bring together Victorianists and facilitate the networking of scholarship across regional and national boundaries. The theme of the 2004 conference is "Victorian Frontiers."
The conference will be located at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO) in association with the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, and Trent University. Plenary speakers and Seminar leaders include JAMES ELI ADAMS, PATRICK BRANTLINGER, KATE FLINT, LINDA and MICHAEL HUTCHEON, AUDREY JAFFE, DIANNE SACHKO MACLEOD, JEROME MCGANN, HARRIET RITVO, and JAMES VERNON. Special panels are organized by Annmarie Adams, Richard Dellamora, Andrew Miller, Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Dianne Sadoff, Ann B. Shteir, and Marjorie Stone, and by the Dickens Project, HBA, INCS, MVSA, NCSA, VISAWUS, VSAWC, and WMS (see website for their topics).
We are accepting proposals for papers on any topic related to the conference theme, including geographical, scientific, technological, aesthetic, economic, and philosophical frontiers; publishing frontiers and boundaries; frontiers of gender and sexuality; relations with settler colonies and indigenous peoples; the construction of Englishness in relation to the rest of Britain; class relations, democracy, and reform; urban frontiers of the slum and the East End; domestic frontiers and a re-evaluation of separate spheres; aestheticism and the frontier of literary or artistic form; the impact of technology on notions of the frontier; the idea of the infinite; the frontiers of subjectivity. Papers are also welcome on the current tools being used to understand the Victorian period, the theoretical frontiers (and their limits) of Victorian Studies itself.
Please send in the post THREE paper copies of your proposal (250-400 words) for a 15-minute talk to ONE of the addresses below by 16 FEBRUARY 2004. Include with your proposal a one-page CV and your institutional and e-mail addresses.
David Latham
208 Stong College
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Jill Matus
7 King's College Circle
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3K1
Please see our conference website for more information:
http://www.utoronto.ca/english/navsa
Submit one proposal only to either a special panel organizer, to an association panel organizer, or to our general Call for Papers. Do not send complete papers. Proposals (in triplicate) should be postmarked no later than 16 February 2004. Direct enquiries to dlatham@yorku.ca (or)
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus
State University of New York
College at Fredonia
Fredonia, NY 14063
?From: ? hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
?Subject: ?Messages
?Date: ?January 27, 2004 10:04:09 AM PST
Dear All,
I sincerely hope that none of you were infected with the virus which most
ISPs apparently were able to intercept and remove before it did its damage.
Remember too, that we never send attachments to the Forum, and all messages bearing attachments should be viewed with suspicion unless they are something you expect from someone known to you.
On another note. Please do your fellow list members the courtesy of signing your full name to your postings. This is a point of etiquette that we are often prone to forget, but it remains one of the oldest of Forum rules.
Many Thanks
Betty Cortus
?From: ? hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
?Subject: ?Suggestion
?Date: ?January 28, 2004 9:30:14 AM PST
Dear All,
I just had an excellent suggestion from JoAnna Mink, who pointed out that at the present time with a virus abroad, and when strange e-mails are appearing with weird subject titles, we need to be especially vigilant about what we open.
Joanna suggests that our posts to the Forum come with subjects that are recognizably Hardy-related.
Is is also important to reiterate that we sign our names to our postings.
This is particularly the case if one's e-mail address does not reflect one's real name.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
?From: ? srogers@sju.edu
?Subject: ?Complete Listing of Reviews on TTHA Reviews Page
?Date: ?January 28, 2004 12:05:35 PM PST
By request, below is a complete list of everything that has been reviewed
so far on the Reviews Page, arranged alphabetically by author. For those
of you who have wondered about various resource benefits in becoming a
TTHA member (worth the price for Bob Schweik's magisterial Checklist alone),
perhaps this will provide a tip of the iceburg view.
Best,
Shannon
Shannon Rogers
General Editor, Book Reviews
The Thomas Hardy Association
Abbot, Rob and Charlie Bell. Thomas Hardy: A Beginner's Guide
REVIEWED BY: SHANNON ROGERS (June 2002)
Armstrong, Tim. Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory.
REVIEWED BY : ROBERT SCHWEIK
REVIEWED BY : WILLIAM MORGAN (2002)
Ayuzawa, Norimitsu, ed. The Bulletin of the Thomas Hardy Society of Japan, No. 28 .
REVIEWED BY : ROSEMARIE MORGAN (Nov 2002)
Bäckman, Sven. The Manners of Ghosts: A Study of the Supernatural in Thomas Hardy's Short Poems.
REVIEWED BY: PHILIP ALLINGHAM
Bannerjee, Amitav, ed. An Historical Evaluation of Thomas Hardy's Poetry.
REVIEWED BY : WILLIAM W. MORGAN (Oct 2001)
Boumelha, Penny, ed. New Casebooks: Jude the Obscure
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN (September 2003)
Burns, Wayne. The Flesh and the Spirit in Seven Hardy Novels .
REVIEWED BY: PHILIP ALLINGHAM (Oct 2002)
Dutta, Shanta. Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of His Attitude to Women
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN
Gibson, James. Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life
SEE: HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9855 7/14/98 "HARDY BIOGRAPHIES"
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy and Thomas Hardy's Later Years
SEE: HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9855 7/14/98 "HARDY BIOGRAPHIES"
Hardy, Barbara. Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction
REVIEWED BY: BETTY CORTUS (January 2004)
Hardy, Thomas. The Collected Letters (edited by Millgate and Purdy)--CD-ROM
REVIEWED BY: BIRGIT PLIETZSCH
Hardy, Thomas. "Memories of Church Restoration" by Thomas Hardy, OM. Alan Whitworth, ed.
REVIEWED BY: PETER COXON
REVIEWED BY: CAROL FARRELLY
Ingham, Patricia. Thomas Hardy
REVIEWED BY: ROBERT SCHWEIK (July 2003)
Jones, Bernard, ed. Fifty-Seven Poems by Thomas Hardy
REVIEWED BY: MARTIN RAY (Oct 2002)
Kerridge, Richard. "Ecological Hardy", in Beyond Nature Writing, eds. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen Wallace
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN
Lefebure, Molly. Thomas Hardy's World
REVIEWED BY: BETTY CORTUS (Sept 2003)
Marsh, Joss. Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth Century England
REVIEWED BY: PHILLIP MALLETT
Maxwell, Catherine. "Vision and Visuality", in A Companion to Victorian Poetry, eds. Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony Harrison
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN (May 2003)
Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy : A Biography
SEE: HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9855 7/14/98 "HARDY BIOGRAPHIES"
Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy's Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose .
REVIEWED BY: JAMES GIBSON
Morgan, Rosemarie. Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy
REVIEWED BY: ANDREW WHEATCROFT
Morgan, Rosemarie, and William W. Morgan, eds. Emma Poems
REVIEWED BY: MARTIN RAY
Morgan, Rosemarie, ed. The Hardy Review
REVIEWED BY: ANDREW WHEATCROFT
Morgan, Rosemarie. "Thomas Hardy," in Victorian Poetry
REVIEWED BY: CAROL FARRELLY (Feb 2003)
Page, Norman. Thomas Hardy: The Novels
REVIEWED BY: BETTY CORTUS (June 2003)
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study (ed. Charles P. C. Pettit)
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN (June 2003)
Ray, Martin. Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short Stories
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN
Schweik, Robert. "Hardy's 'Plunge in a New and Untried Direction': Comic Detachment in The Hand of Ethelberta "
REVIEWED BY: ROSEMARIE MORGAN
Seymour-Smith, Martin. Hardy: A Biography
SEE: HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9855 7/14/98 "HARDY BIOGRAPHIES"
Sumner, Rosemary. A Route to Modernism: Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf
REVIEWED BY: PHILLIP MALLET
Turner, Paul. The Life of Thomas Hardy
SEE: HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0075 9/12/00 "TURNER BIOG CRITIQUES"
Wickens, G. Glen. Thomas Hardy, Monism and the Carnival Tradition
REVIEWED BY: ROBERT SCHWEIK (Jan 2003)REVIEWED BY: C. M. JACKSON-HOULSTON (Feb 2003)
Wright, Sara Bird. Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work
REVIEWED BY: PHILIP ALLINGHAM
?From: ? DMSECK@aol.com
?Subject: ?Re: Suggestion to Hardy Forum
?Date: ?January 28, 2004 3:47:14 PM PST
In a message dated 1/28/2004 9:35:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, hardycor@owl.csusm.edu writes:
Joanna suggests that our posts to the Forum come with subjects that are
recognizably Hardy-related
Betty,
Many thanks for passing this suggestion along in hopes of jogging our brain. There are, in fact, several times I have nearly deleted a message without reading it due to the subject heading. As a grad student, I find your scholarly conversations are too vital to miss!
Donna Seckrater
CSU San Bernardino
?From: ? hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
?Subject: ?Hardy-Related Messages
?Date: ?January 29, 2004 11:48:23 AM PST
Dear All,
Please make sure that postings to the list are of a scholarly nature, and
are concerned with Hardy studies in particular. Furthermore, the advice of
yesterday still holds good--make it a point to see that subject headings
are recognizably Hardy-related.
Many thanks,
Betty Cortus
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