Hardy the Creator (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Simon Gatrell
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Textual criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Social life, Novelists, Creative process, Publishing or publishers, Censorship, Victorian era or Victorianism
The subtitle of Simon Gatrell’s study of Hardy as a creator is somewhat misleading, for a reader who comes to it expecting a biography of Hardy based on a study of his texts will be disappointed. Instead of a study of Hardy’s life, this is actually a study of the “life” of his texts, that is, how his works moved from original manuscript in Hardy’s own hand through their various appearances in print. Thus, the major emphasis of the subtitle of this study is on the word “textual” rather than on “biography.”
Gatrell’s assumption, and it is one that will receive...
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