English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

6-4-1957

Abstract

The history of Hardy criticism may be divided into three main categories. The first of these grew out of the natural curiosity of Hardy readers regarding the exact locations of his disguised places; and thus there appeared, in the early twentieth century, a fair number of books identifying "Casterbridge," "Weatherbury," "Egdon Heath," and all the rest of Hardy's thinly veiled towns, villages, and natural features of the West of England. Herman Lea's authoritative Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) put an end to place-hunting; for there could be little added to this exact and painstaking achievement which answered every question about the locations of Hardy's novels and poems.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Thomas Matthews Pearce

Second Committee Member

William Price Albrecht

Third Committee Member

Cecil Vivian Wicker

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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