Laurence Estanove

Laurence Estanove wrote her MA thesis on solitude in Jude the Obscure and her master’s on unrequited love in a selection of Hardy’s novels and poems. In 2008, she completed and defended her PhD thesis on “The Dynamics of Disillusionment in Hardy’s Poetry”. She is the webmaster for FATHOM and co-editor of its online journal. She has published on Hardy’s verse as well as his fiction and other writings.
In parallel, she also works on contemporary British popular music.

—Publications on Thomas Hardy

  • Thomas Hardy, Poet: New Perspectives, ed. Adrian Grafe & Laurence Estanove, Jefferson (North Carolina), McFarland & Co., 2015.
  • “‘[A]s though / I were not by’: Marty South, ‘parenthetically'”, The Hardy Review 15.1 (Spring 2013), pp. 78-95.
  • Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (editor), Paris, Atlande (collection Clés Concours), 2010. ISBN: 9782350301297
  • “A Lament and a Sigh: Voicing Disillusionment in Thomas Hardy’s Verse”, The Hardy Review 11.1 (Spring 2009), pp. 31–40.
  • “Généalogie et géographie dans Tess D’Urberville“, Méthode ! 14 (novembre 2008, numéro spécial Agrégation de Lettres 2009), pp. 279–286.
  • “’Voices From Things Growing in a Churchyard’: Hardy’s verse on both sides of the grave”, The Hardy Society Journal 4.2 (Summer 2008), pp. 29-39.
  • “Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower : vers une redéfinition cosmique de l’appartenance”, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 67 (avril 2008), pp. 55-66.
  • “Violence et vision : The Dynasts de Thomas Hardy”, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 65 (avril 2007), pp. 55-67.

—Conference Papers

  • “The Sad Shadow of the Fin de Siècle: Thomas Hardy’s Poetics of Disillusionment”, Decadent Poetics Conference, Centre For Victorian Studies, University of Exeter, 1-2 July, 2011.
  • “Thomas Hardy’s (Auto)Biography: the Female Voice as Pretence”, “Gender and Self-Narration” research seminar, Université de Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail, March 27, 2009.
  • Tess D’Urberville et l’ironie hardyenne”, Journée d’études Agrégation de Lettres 2009, Université de Tours, January 31, 2009.
Updated March 2021