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The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect
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Thomas Hardy is one of England's greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory. The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect.
This book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect. It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation - which would still be radical a century later. Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
"Kester Rattenbury [...] takes what is usually seen as a footnote of Hardy's life and puts it at the centre. Again, the privilege is that of looking into a great mind." - Rowan Moore, The Observer's Best Books of 2018 "This is a marvellous book, recommended to anyone interested in architecture or conservation, and it will make readers eager to take another, more informed, look at Hardy's novels." - Peter Parker, A Magazine for RIBA Friends of Architecture "This is a thought-provoking and elegantly written book of value to all students of architecture, conservation and nineteenth - and early twentieth-century visual culture." - Jeremy Musson, The Victorian "A must read for anyone with an interest in Hardy." - Tony Fincham, The Thomas Hardy Journal "Handsomely designed and generously illustrated, it also has the merit of being a visual pleasure to read, a bonus not always to be found in these days of increasingly meagre book-production values." - Keith Wilson, English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920