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Thomas Hardy was born just a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne and died just a few years before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. His life spanned the rise and decline of industrial Britain, the ages of capital and empire, and the march of human progress into the devastation of the Great War: the Victorian century and the modern century.
Hardy draws on a wide range of manuscript and printed sources previously considered marginal to provide general readers, students, and Hardyans with an accessible yet scholarly account of the relationship between Hardy’s life and work and the turbulent times which he chronicled so powerfully.
It draws connections between biographical events, artistic concerns, ideas, the literary and cultural world, and the great dramas of the age—democracy, women’s rights, mass society, science, imperialism, and war. In doing so, it reveals a different Hardy—a man intimately and dynamically engaged with the worlds of politics, ideas, and culture as well as the world of rural Wessex: a man who fused a powerfully localized imagination with a cosmopolitan intellect.
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