On Thomas Hardy

Brings together essays reflecting both Thomas Hardy's major critical work over the last 15 years and three new pieces. This volume should allow readers to test the force of Willowson's critical polemic in undispersed form.

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The author, a leading and influential critic of Thomas Hardy, brings together for the first time essays representing both his major critical work over the last fifteen years and three entirely new pieces. This volume allows readers to test the force of Widdowson's critical polemic in undispersed form. Readable, engaged and, no doubt, often infuriating, this is a book for all those who still regard Hardy as 'our contemporary'.