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"In this book, G. Glen Wickens offers a new reading of a work which is often ignored by critics and students of Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts. Wickens explores the monistic viewpoint of The Dynasts through reference to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philosophical writings which have never before been applied to Hardy's writing. Using insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin - in particular his concept of carnival - Wickens also counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres. In doing so, he brings out new, violent implications to Bakhtin's theory of laughter and carnival." "Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition is the first book-length study of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts since 1977. It will be of interest to Hardy scholars, critics of Bakhtin, and readers interested in monist philosophy or nineteenth-century history."--Jacket.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Carnival in literature. --- Monism in literature. --- Fiction --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Literature and the wars. --- Technique. --- Hardy, Thomas, --- Bakhtin, M. M. --- Napoleon --- Bonapart, Napoleon, --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana, --- Bonaparte, Napoleão, --- Bonaparte, Napoleon, --- Bonaparte, Napoleone, --- Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, --- Buonaparte, Napoleon, --- Na-pʻo-lun, --- Nābuliyūn, --- Napoleone --- Napʻolleong, --- Napolun, --- נפוליאון --- נפוליאון, --- نابليون --- بونابرت، نابليون، --- Būnābart, Nābuliyūn, --- Bachtin, Michail, --- Bachtin, Michail M., --- Baxtin, Mixail Mixailovič, --- Bakhtine, Mikhaïl, --- Bajtin, Mijail, --- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich --- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich, --- Bahŭchʻin, --- Bahtyin, M. M. --- Bahtyin, Mihail Mihajlovics, --- Bahtin, M. M., --- Bachtinas, M. --- Bachtinas, Michailas, --- Бахтин, М. М. --- Bahtin, Mihail, --- Bakhtin, Mikhail, --- Бахтин, Михаил Михайлович, --- In literature. --- Napoléon --- Bonaparte, Napoléon --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana --- Bonaparte, Napoleão --- Bonaparte, Napoleon --- Bonaparte, Napoleone --- Buonaparte, Napoleon --- Na-pʻo-lun --- Napolun --- Bakhtin, Mikhayil, --- Dynasts (Hardy, Thomas) --- Shoō no fu (Hardy, Thomas)