H04073 NOVEMBER 2004 NOTES AND QUERIES - 11/12/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES
REQUESTS FOR HARDY CRITICISM
QUAOTATION SOURCE SOUGHT
NEWER EDITIONS SOUGHT
HARDY AND REALISM
From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Thomas Hardy Criticism
Date: November 12, 2004 5:11:02 PM PST
Dear All,
The following post came to the VICTORIA List, and I have requested
permission from the writer to forward it to the Forum. You may wish to
respond to his query privately, or I will forward to him any responses that
come to the Forum.
Many Thanks,
Betty
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:50:06 +0000
From: Simon Avery <S.J.Avery@HERTS.AC.UK>
Subject: Thomas Hardy criticism
To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Dear List Members,
I'm soon going to be teaching 'Jude the Obscure' and 'The Mayor of
Casterbridge' and wondered if anyone had any recommendations for criticism
that they've found particularly useful or innovative. Any suggestions would
be gratefully received.
With all best wishes,
Simon
_____________________________
Simon Avery
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Deputy Programme Tutor (Academic)
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire
de Havilland Campus
Hatfield
Herts AL10 9AB
Tel: 01707 285684
E-mail: s.j.avery@herts.ac.uk
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From: schweik@fredonia.edu
Subject: Re: Thomas Hardy Criticism
Date: November 13, 2004 6:38:05 AM PST
For queries such as the one above, one convenient
source to suggest is the Gale Twentieth-Century
Literary Criticism Series (Detroit: Gale Research,
Inc.) which is selective and updated from time to
time.
Bob Schweik
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Thomas Hardy Criticism
Date: November 13, 2004 7:33:30 AM PST
Simon -- I would suggest that Dennis Taylor's Introduction to the Penguin Classics first edition (1998) of *Jude* & Keith Wilson's Introduction to the first edition of *The Mayor of Casterbridge* (Penguin Classics, 1997)-- are as good as it gets!
Rosemarie Morgan
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Quotation Query
Date: November 17, 2004 9:10:40 AM PST
Dear All,
The following poster is not a Forum subscriber, but I will forward any
responses to him.
Many Thanks,
Betty
Please forgive this enquiry but I recently came across a splendid quotation
attributed to Thomas Hardy. It is: " It is better to know a little bit of
the world remarkably well, than to know a great part remarkably little".
Despite extensive searches of dictionaries of quotations (on paper and
online), web searches and looking at books on Hardy, I have been unable to
trace the exact source of the quotation and verify that Hardy actually said
it. His novels, poems and letters are voluminous and only limited amounts
are in an electronic form which allows quick searching. None of those who
have used the quotation have given an attribution. I was wondering if the
Society or any of its members knew of any way to check whether Hardy really
said this.
I'd very grateful for any help you or your colleagues can give.
Many thanks,
Gordon Clark
g.clark@lancaster.ac.u
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Another Query
Date: November 17, 2004 9:15:40 AM PST
Here is another query which came to VICTORIA which our members may be able
to answer. As always, I willforward responses coming to the Forum to the
poster.
Many Thanks,
Betty
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:16:02 -0800
From: natalie schroeder <nschroed@OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject: Query from A Colleague
To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Hello everyone,
I have a query from a colleague.
For a preface I'm writing, I've been quoting from some essays of
Hardy's--"The Science of Fiction," "The Dorsetshire Labourer," and so
on--but when it comes time to cite the volume from which they came, all we
have in this library is Life and Art: Essays, Notes, and Letters Collected
for the First Time. New York: Greenberg, 1925. I've tried to locate a
newer volume that collects these essays but haven't found anything. Surely
that can't be the newest edition.
Do any of you know if there is a more recent edition.
Thanks,
Natalie Schroeder
University of Mississippi
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From: sflynn@gettysburg.edu
Subject: RE: Another Query
Date: November 17, 2004 10:03:51 AM PST
The most recent volume that I know of is Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings, edited by Harold Orel (1966). Hope this helps.
Suzanne Flynn
Gettysburg College
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Re: Query from A Colleague
Date: November 17, 2004 9:51:10 AM PST
Your colleague will find the essays she's using in either
Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings: Prefaces, Literary Opinions, Reminiscences, ed. Harold Orel (London: Macmillan, 1967)
or the more recent, more inclusive, more carefully edited
Thomas Hardy's Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose, ed. Michael Millgate (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001)
cheers,
Bill Morgan
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Hardy and Realism
Date: November 26, 2004 5:41:20 AM PST
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Hi folks --
I'm in the middle of preparing the magisterial Helmut Gerber & Eugene Davis Annotated Bibliography for publication on TTHA's Members' Page and have just come across the following Nineteenth Century idea of "Realism". Since the designation, "Realism," has cropped up many times in recent scholarship and remains a disputed area I thought you'd like to see how one major critic of the 1890s perceived it:
All best wishes,
Rosemarie
_________313 MacArthur, Henry. "Realism and Romance: Thomas Hardy and Robert Louis Stevenson," REALISM AND ROMANCE AND OTHER ESSAYS (Edinburgh: Hunter, 1897), pp. 1-33. H is the leading representative of the realist school, whose distinguishing marks are as follows: he keeps to the present day and within the limits of the possible; his fiction depends, for its interest, upon character rather than upon incident; he chooses and treats subjects boldly and unconventionally; he aims at painting real men and women.
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