Penny Boumelha Livres

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the " Bodies, Children and Futures in Hardy's Novels.

This important study offers close readings of The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, considered in feminist, Marxist, and other theoretical and critical contexts.