Thomas Hardy's Pastoral

An Unkindly May

• Author(s): Indy Clark,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_10: 1137505028
  ISBN_13: 9781137505026
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

Description:... This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.