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"item_title" : "Haunted Hardy",
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"item_description" : "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.",
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780333597910
- ISBN-10: 0333597915
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: November 2000
- Dimensions: 8.78 x 6.18 x 0.94 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 198
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