Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

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Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music is written by Mark Asquith and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230508014 (ISBN 10) and 9780230508019 (ISBN 13).

This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and musicological), which will be of use to all Hardy scholars, and discusses a range of Hardy's major works in relation to musical metaphors - from early fiction The Poor Man and the Lady to later major works Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge .