Feb 23, 2018 By: yunews
Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, chair of the English department at , and head of the humanities division, will give a plenary address at the 23rd international Thomas Hardy Society Biennial conference in Dorchester, England on July 17, celebrating Fifty Years of the Society. Referencing the Greek term Poesis [making], the title of her talk is 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Poems and His Reader: The Power of Unmaking.鈥
She has published widely on the work of Thomas Hardy, including what is considered a seminal essay on the radical aesthetic of Tess of the d鈥橴rbervilles and numerous other essays on his poetry and other novels, such as the Introduction and Notes for the Penguin Classics edition of The Trumpet Major and such articles as 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Memorial Art: Image and Text in Wessex Poems鈥 (Victorian Literature and Culture) and 鈥淗ardy鈥檚 Browning: Refashioning the Lyric鈥 (Victorian Poetry).
Her most recent essay 鈥淢atter, Consciousness, and the Human in Wessex Poems,鈥 which appeared in SEL鈥檚 Autumn 2015 (55, 4) issue will be reprinted by Gale/Cengage in a Poetry Criticism volume on Wessex Poems by Thomas Hardy (Lawrence Trudeau, Gen. Editor).
