[hardy-l] New Review of Julian Wolfrey's "Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884

[Kathie Bassett]

Dear all-

Keya Kraft, a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis has
written a provocative, interesting review of Julian Wolfrey's
"Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: the Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory
in the Nineteenth Century."  Kraft examines Wolfrey's assessment of
Hardy as a "second-generation novelist who disrupts the Victorian
narrative of social and historical progress" by depicting historical
experience "as a continual return of the repressed, the expression of
a resistant but local English rural other that refused to be effaced
by the Victorian commitment to progress."

The review can be accessed on TTHA's Members' Research Resources Page through:

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm

New TTHA members are always welcome and can sign up at:

http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm

Enjoy!


All my best,
Kathie