Images of alienation and isolation in Thomas Hardy's short fiction
The thesis studies the whole range of Hardy's short stories, arguing that the distinctive core of Hardy's writing in this form is a profound sense of human alienation and loneliness. The opening chapter considers the factors that gave rise to the development of the genre in the 1880s and 1...
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Bangor University
2000
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310858 |