Overview
Hardy was a poet of ghosts. In his poetry he describes himself as posthumous; as rekindling the cinders of passion; as the guardian of the dead forgotten by history; and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy's poetry.
- | Author: T. Armstrong
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 198 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1349643815
- | ISBN-13: 9781349643813
