Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels

Drawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy''s Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking rereading of Hardy''s four major tragic novels. The readings are sophisticated and yet accessible. The theoretical work is complemented by the use of n...