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BEACHAM'S ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Address: http://www.larsonmm.com/beacham/newarts/hardyt.htm [NOW CLOSED]
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Date: 01/09/00

Part of "New Articles and Updates," a sub-page of a "Beachman Publishing Online" site maintained by Beacham Publishing. Reproduces an article in Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction by Donald Dougherty of Loyola College of Maryland. The article is in four main parts:

1. "Major Works" consists of a list of 26 dated titles of Hardy works.
2. "About the Author" provides an eleven-paragraph biographical sketch.
3. "Publishing History, Critical Reception, Honors, and Popularity" supplies three paragraphs covering those aspects of Hardy's career.
4. "Resources" consists of an annotated bibliography of twenty-one items.

COMMENT:

An uneven article. The "Major Works" list is unremarkable, but "About the Author" lacks precision and balance in places--e.g., in one of its eleven paragraphs we are told that Hardy had an "affair" with Florence Henniker, and half of that paragraph is devoted to the long-discredited Deacon and Coleman thesis. Again, while the "Publishing History, Critical Reception, Honors, and Popularity" section provides a balanced, succinct summary, "Resources" is quite uneven: it devotes space to the Deacon and Coleman book, for example, and to Carl Weber's flawed and now long superseded Hardy of Wessex, but fails to include Michael Millgate's authoritative biography, nor the more recent one by Turner.

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