Thomas Hardy's Pastoral: An Unkindly May

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.

• | Author: Indy Clark
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 226 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 113750501X
• | ISBN-13: 9781137505019