Abstract: In the General Preface to the 1912 Wessex Edition Hardy put three of his novels, Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean, into the category of ‘Novels of Ingenuity’. This, as he apologetically explains, was because they ‘show a not infrequent disregard of the probable in the chain of events, and depend for their interest mainly on the incidents themselves’. Despite some attempts at retrieving the group from critical limbo,1 not much attention has been paid to A Laodicean. I hope that attending more closely to its mode of presentation, and in particular to verbal aspects of this, we can arrive at a better appreciation of the kind of ingenuity the novel displays.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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