Faulkner's Place by MichaelMillgate Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3371-7, ISBN: 0-8203-3371-9
"Celebrating the centenary of William Faulkner's birthThis volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics. Michael Millgate established himself as a leading authority on Faulkner with the publication of The Achievement of William Faulkner more than thirty years ago. Since then, in pieces such as Faulkner and History and Faulkner's Masters, he has co ..."
Thomas Hardy(Updated) A Biography Revisited by MichaelMillgate Paperback, 638 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927566-3, ISBN: 0-19-927566-1
"Michael Millgate's classic biography of the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably expanded new edition the world's leading Hardy sc ..."
Thomas Hardy(1st Edition) A Biography Revisited by MichaelMillgate Hardcover, 638 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927565-6, ISBN: 0-19-927565-3
"Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new edition Millgate, the world's leading Hardy scholar, draws not ..."
"Thomas Hardy's "Poetical Matter" notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many notes copied by Hardy from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, "Poetical Matter" reaches back to all periods of his life, and is especially valuable from a biographical standpoi ..."
"... Virginia 1957-1958, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (Char-
lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1959), p. 74. 10. Regina K. Fadiman,
Faulkner's "Light in August": A Description and Interpretation of the Revisions (
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975), pp. 33-4. 11. "An Introduction
for The Sound and the Fury," 709. 12. Carl F. W. Ficken suggests in "A Textual
and Critical Study of William Faul ..."
Thomas Hardy(Updated) A Biography (Oxford Paperbacks) by MichaelMillgate Paperback, 653 Pages, Published 1985 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-281472-2, ISBN: 0-19-281472-9
"This full-scale biography of Thomas Hardy presents not only the richest, most comprehensive account of his life available, but also the most balanced and sympathetic view of Hardy as a man and as an artist. Michael Millgate has drawn extensively on previously unknown materials, including diaries, notebooks, letters, local records, and contemporary newspapers, and on his experience as co-editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy."
"Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people, self-isolated in his Dorsetshire home, and much more cautious and conservative in his personal outlook than might be expected of the author of Tess of the D'Ubervilles and Jude the Obscure. What the present volume reveals is that Hardy's public utterances, addressed to a wide range of literary, social, and political issues, were f ..."
"The opening section of this seventh and final volume of the definitive edition of Thomas Hardy's letters covers the period from January 1926 to December 1927: his last letter, to Edmund Gosse, was written on Christmas Day 1927 and he died seventeen days later, on 11 January 1928. Although few of his long-standing personal correspondences were actively kept up during these last two years of his life, Hardy maintained (especially when wri ..."
William Faulkner (Hardcover) by MichaelMillgate Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-77887-3, ISBN: 1-258-77887-4
Faulkner's Place(1st Edition) by MichaelMillgate Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1937-7, ISBN: 0-8203-1937-6
"This volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics. Michael Millgate established himself as a leading authority on Faulkner with the publication of The Achievement of William Faulkner more than thirty years ago. Since then, in pieces such as "Faulkner and History" and "Faulkner's Masters," he has continued to reflect upon the legendary southern wr ..."
Testamentary Acts(Reprint) Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy (UK PB 1st) by MichaelMillgate Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Clarendon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818366-2, ISBN: 0-19-818366-6
"BL Examines the testamentary acts, or strategies of self-protection and self-projection, which authors employed to enhance posterity's view of themselves BL Particular attention is paid to the four leading Victorian literary figures: Robert ..."
"One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of w ..."
The Achievement of William Faulkner(Updated) (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.) by MichaelMillgate Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1142-5, ISBN: 0-8203-1142-1
"First published in 1966, Millgate's text begins with an essay on Faulkner's life and career and proceeds to a treatment of each novel in chronological order, a survey of Faulkner's prolific work in the short story and an assessment of Faulkner's achievement as a whole. Designed to be an accessible study of Faulkner's life and work, it is aimed at both students and general readers."
"It has been said that both of Thomas Hardy's wives were livelier letter writers than he was himself. They were certainly less discreet, especially on the subject of their marital grievances. Michael Millgate has brought together a meticulously edited and fully annotated selection of the letters of Emma and Florence Hardy. As a result, Hardy's intensely private life and personality are uniquely illuminated by the two women who knew him b ..."
"In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its composition and position in Faulkner's career, its structure and narrative techniques, and its relation to the religious, racial, and sexual assumptions of the society it represents."
"One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of w ..."
"The Mansion completes Faulkner’s great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation."