H04045 REVIEWS PAGE NEWS 7/2/04 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE
From: ? srogers@sju.edu
Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 2, 2004 10:30:21 AM PDT
Hardy and His Readers.
I invite all members to visit the Reviews Page to read this and our other previous reviews.
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
shannon.rogers@sju.edu
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From: T.R.Wright@newcastle.ac.uk
Subject: Not so festering: RE: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 5, 2004 12:53:21 AM PDT
Dear Hardy-readers,
Just to say (in case my letter in the June issue of the "Thomas Hardy Journal" gives the impression that I jump on any reviewer that dares criticise my work) that Paul Titchmarsh gives a reasonably accurate account of my book on "Hardy and His Readers". My book, perhaps overambitiously, does attempt the three tasks Paul suggests in his final paragraph and he's probably right that it succeeds best as a contribution to the History of the Book, illustrating the context in which Hardy was writing in terms of publishers, serialisation and reader-expectations. One minor quibble though: I don't recall using the epithet 'festering' to qualify the Nietzschean term 'resentment'. It's true that Nietzsche says the downtrodden man of ressentiment may 'suppurate with poisonous and hostile feelings' but neither Hardy nor myself can 'fester' for ever. He finds indirect ways of letting it out (mainly in his art). I guess that's true for both of us!
Hoping to be emptied of all poisonous feelings by the time the conference gets underway at the end of the month.
Yrs, Terry Wright
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Not so festering: RE: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 5, 2004 2:46:16 AM PDT
Dear Terry,
I also felt Titchmarsh's review was a balanced account: you say "reasonably accurate" but my sense is that this phrase reflects your intentions as much as what you feel you achieved. I can only speak for the latter. And in this context I would like to add to Titchmarsh's evaluation of *Hardy and His Readers* by saying that a worthwhile piece of scholarship invariably encounters a good deal of critical entanglement (in the Darwinian sense) and painful as it may sometimes be for the author this is essential to the evolution of ideas. Provided critics challenge a book's ideas and not the manner of style and logic with which they are presented authors can, I think, sleep (without venom) at night.
I very much look forward to meeting you at the Hardy Conference Terry.
Ex mithridate --
Rosemarie
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From: T.R.Wright@newcastle.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Not so festering: RE: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 5, 2004 2:56:25 AM PDT
Dear Rosemarie,
Agreed. And yes, I'll look out for you after Michael Millgate's lecture.
Yrs, Terry
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From: srogers@sju.edu
Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 19, 2004 10:43:16 AM PDT
Just added to the Reviews Page are the following reviews:
Rosemary Sumner's review of Ariela Freedman's Death, Men and Modernism---especially interesting when paired with
Robert Schweik's recent review
and
William Gillard's review of The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy by Geoffrey Harvey
I invite all members to visit the Reviews Page to read this and our other previous reviews.
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
shannon.rogers@sju.edu
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: July 19, 2004 11:43:01 AM PDT
Thank you Shannon.
Excellent reviews, both!
My only gripe -- I could have done with far, far more Sumner! What a deeply thoughtful piece of critical prose.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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