The Mayor of Casterbridge | Techniques
Although he was trained as an architect, Hardy's special strength as a novelist does not lie with technical innovation. Unlike his American counterpart of a succeeding generation, John Dos Passos, who was also trained in art and architecture and turned much of his creative energies to redesigning the very form of the novel, Hardy is essentially a conservative Victorian novelist, in many ways even more the traditionalist than his predecessors Dickens and Thackeray. His novels, like theirs, were written for serialization. That is, chapters or groups of chapters were published in magazines or...
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