Thomas Hardy's tragic vision : writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction

This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncovers how his tragic vision of a changing world led him into proto-modernist forms of writing. By first positing Hardy within his milieu and exploring the ideas, beliefs and attitudes that gave rise to h...

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Main Author: Prentice, N.
Published: University of the West of England, Bristol 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680883