THOMAS HARDY'S FACTS NOTEBOOK by WILLIAM GREENSLADE, edited by William Greenslade, Thomas Hardy ISBN 9781840142358, 1840142359 instant download

THOMAS HARDY'S FACTS NOTEBOOK by WILLIAM GREENSLADE, edited by William Greenslade, Thomas Hardy ISBN 9781840142358, 1840142359 instant download

From his intensive study of the Dorset County Chronicle for 1826-1830, he noted and summarised into 'Facts' (with the help of his first wife, Emma) hundreds of reports, many of them suggestive 'satires of circumstance', for possible use in his fiction and poems. Along with extensive reading in memoirs and local histories, this immersion in the files of the old newspaper involved him in a wider experience - the recovery and recognition of the unstable culture of the local past in the post-Napoleonic war years before his birth in 1840, and before the impact of the modernising of the Victorian era.

'Facts' is thus a unique document amongst Hardy's private writings and is here for the first time edited, the text transcribed in 'typographical facsimile' form, together with substantial annotation of the entries and critical and textual introductions.

Contents: Critical introduction
Textual introduction
Bibliographical description
THE NOTEBOOK
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Author Biography: William Greenslade is Principal Lecturer in English, University of the West of England, Bristol. He is the author of Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940 (1994). He has edited George Gissing's The Whirlpool (1997) and has published a number of articles on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture.