T. Armstrong – författare

Hardy was a poet of ghosts. In his poetry he describes himself as posthumous; as rekindling the cinders of passion; as the guardian of the dead forgotten by history; and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy's poetry.

In this text scholars from around the world examine the literatures of countries only recently coming into their own as distinct political and cultural identities. This volume should appeal to all students and scholars of modern Central and Eastern Europe, spanning as it does a broad spectrum of national literature, genres and literary and cultural issues.