Course Code: 3XTH10B24
Start Date: 08/01/2025
Day of the Week:Session: Morning
Delivery method: Hybrid (Centre and Zoom)
Length in weeks: 10
Time: 10.00am-12.00pm
Price: £
Paula Byrne’s recent book (2024) on Hardy and women has stimulated much debate about how a writer could apparently write so sympathetically about women in his novels and yet be capable of such coldness to his wife. In this course we will look at Hardy’s life with focus on the 1890s; exploring Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), The Well-Beloved (1892; 1897), and his poems, to better understand these contradictions in context.