Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy

Author: Roger Ebbatson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 3031401107

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This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure.

Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy

Author: Roger Ebbatson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2023-11-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031401091

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This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure.

Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe

Author: Pamela Gossin

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780754603368

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In the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin offers complex and inspired readings of seven novels that enrich previous Darwinian, feminist and formalist perspectives on his work. S

Thomas Hardy and Empire
Thomas Hardy and Empire

Author: Jane L. Bownas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1317010442

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Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire and in spite of the many allusions to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic Wars in his writing. Jane L. Bownas examines the context of these references, proposing that Hardy was a writer who not only posed a challenge to the whole of established society, but one whose writings bring into question the very notion of empire. Bownas argues that Hardy takes up ideas of the primitive and civilized that were central to Western thought in the nineteenth century, contesting this opposition and highlighting the effect outsiders have on so-called 'primitive' communities. In her discussion of the oppressions of imperialism, she analyzes the debate surrounding the use of gender as an articulated category, together with race and class, and shows how, in exposing the power structures operating within Britain, Hardy produces a critique of all forms of ideological oppression.

THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection: 15 Novels, 53 Short Stories & 650+ Poems (Illustrated Edition)
THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection: 15 Novels, 53 Short Stories & 650+ Poems (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Thomas Hardy

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2024-01-12

Total Pages: 7350

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Hardy's 'THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection' captures the essence of the author's prolific literary career in a single volume. This comprehensive collection includes not only 15 novels but also 53 short stories and over 650 poems, all beautifully illustrated. Hardy's writing is characterized by its vivid depiction of rural life in England, exploring themes of love, class, fate, and the role of women in society. His stories display a naturalistic style with a touch of romanticism, making his work both engaging and thought-provoking. This collection allows readers to fully immerse themselves in Hardy's captivating narratives and lyrical poetry, offering a deeper insight into the complexities of Victorian society. Thomas Hardy, a renowned English novelist and poet, drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up in rural Dorset. His background as an architect and keen observer of human nature is reflected in his intricate character studies and detailed descriptions of the English countryside. Hardy's works are marked by their questioning of traditional Victorian values and their exploration of the human condition with a sense of empathy and realism. 'THOMAS HARDY Ultimate Collection' is a must-read for any literature lover seeking a rich and diverse literary experience that spans across genres and forms. With its comprehensive selection of Hardy's work, this collection showcases the depth and breadth of his talent, firmly establishing him as a timeless literary icon.

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms

Author: Delia Correa Sousa de

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1136749993

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The essays in this volume trace the experimentation of nineteenth-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction while revitalizing the inheritance of the Gothic and the Romantic. Focusing on some of the most popular novels of the century (Northanger Abbey, Jayne Eyre, Dombey and Son, Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd and Germinal), this attractive volume explores some of the recurring themes in nineteenth-century fiction: aspiration and vocation; social class; sexual politics; political reform; colonialism and commerce. This is an ideal introduction to some of the major fictional achievements of the first industrial era, and to most of the crucial themes in nineteenth-century fiction.

The Nineteenth-century Novel
The Nineteenth-century Novel

Author: Delia da Sousa Correa

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0415238269

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This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writers in advancing new modes of realist fiction.

Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy

Author: Dr Eithne Henson

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1409479072

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Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on Brontë and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines the conventions of reading landscape, including the implied expectations of the reader, the question of the gendered narrator, how place defines the kind of action and characters in the novels, the importance of landscape in creating mood, the pastoral as a moral marker for readers, and the influence of changing aesthetic theory on the implied painterly models that the three authors reproduce in their work. She also considers how each writer defines the concept of Englishness against an internal or colonial Other. Alongside these concerns, Henson interrogates the ancient trope that equates woman with nature, and the effect of comparing women to natural objects or offering them as objects of the male gaze, typically to diminish or control them. Informed by close readings, Henson's study offers an original approach to the significances of landscape in the 'realist' nineteenth-century novel.

Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism
Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism

Author: George Wotton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780389205647

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Challenging the generally accepted critical constructions of the novels of Thomas Hardy, this book explores the historical, social, aesthetic and ideological determinants of Hardy's novels. Analyzing the ways in which Hardy's writings have been variously reproduced in literary criticism to produce certain social and ideological effects. Wotton also discusses the relation between Hardy's writing and Hardy criticism.