'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.' Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy an[...]
Argues that any story, whether a Bette Davis film or a Jane Austen novel, must be related to larger cultural networks. Calls for a critical practice that revises our conception of narrative through the fracturing of texts.[...]
In addition to presenting the complete text of Hardy's famous novel, this volume provides students with contextualizing historical essays by John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Mona Caird and a selection of modern critical essays. Additional works by Hardy include "On the Western Circuit" and the poem [...]