Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry Codes of Bereavement /

• Main Author: Benziman, Galia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry and Poetics.

This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Har...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Elegy, Discourses of Grieving, and Figuring the Dead
• 2. "Hands behind hands": Seeing the Dead
• 3. "Spectres that grieve": The Dead Speak
• 4. "Still corporeally imminent": Hardy's revenants
• 5. "For she won't know": Utilizing the dead
• 6. "I do but the phantom retain": The mistrust of memory.