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

Author : Eithne Henson

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 25,53 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1409442381

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Examining representations of physical and metaphorical landscape in Charlotte Bront1/2, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Henson explores the way gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of physical and metaphorical landscape and in the idea of nature, through the gendered voices of the narrators. Henson looks at the influence of changing aesthetic theory, arguing that factors such as scientific enquiry and industrialization changed the representation of landscape and of Englishness in these 'realist' novels."



Thomas Hardy and Animals

Author : Anna West

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 22,39 MB

Release : 2017-04-19

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 131683431X

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Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.



Reading Hardy's Landscapes

Author : Michael Irwin

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,96 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Description (Rhetoric)

ISBN : 9781349410064

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This book proposes that a Hardy novel should be read very much as a Constable painting is 'read' - the landscape as significant as the figures who traverse it, the background as important as the story. It analyses the recurring emphases and implications in Hardy's innumerable descriptions of birds, plants, insects, light, weather, sound, movement. The ephemeral lives of his human protagonists are seen to be half dissolved in the ceaseless patterns of motion, change and dissolution in the teeming world they inhabit. Hardy emerges as no mere story-teller, in the nineteenth-century tradition, but as a poet and a modernist who dramatizes a vision, a way of seeing and understanding the world. So far from being - as has often been claimed - an unsophisticated writer, he is a supremely coherent artist whose work everywhere shows the shaping power of his idiosyncratic habit of imagination.



Reading Hardy's Landscapes

Author : M. Irwin

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 20,33 MB

Release : 2000-03-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780333741917

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Reading Hardy's Landscapes locates the essential energy of the novels in the descriptive details as much as in the story. The emphasis is on the author's habits of vision and imagination. It is instinctive in Hardy to locate his tales between the huge abstractions of time and space and the minute particularities of nature - a leaf, a minnow, a gnat. His human dramas unfold in a landscape and are part of that landscape, caught up in larger patterns of movement and change.



Reading Rural Landscapes

Author : Robert Stanford

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 31,22 MB

Release : 2015-09-15

Category : History

ISBN : 168475156X

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Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.



The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

Author : Rosemarie Morgan

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 712 pages

File Size : 32,73 MB

Release : 2016-03-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317041283

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In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.



Landscape and Literature 1830-1914

Author : R. Ebbatson

Publisher : Springer

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 47,74 MB

Release : 2013-05-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137330449

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This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas.



Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads

Author : Scott Rode

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 16,71 MB

Release : 2006-06-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1135519870

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This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure - and by mapping the road travels of his protagonists, this book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities. Balancing modern exigencies with mythic possibilities, Hardy's fictive roads exist as contested spaces that channel desire for middle-class assimilation even as they provide the means both to reinforce and to resist conformity to hegemonic authority.



An Introduction to Landscape

Author : Peter Howard

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 15,59 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1409403831

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Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.



Re-Reading the Age of Innovation

Author : Louise Kane

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 35,57 MB

Release : 2022-07-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1000587886

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The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian or modernist camps, this collection argues for a new framework that reveals how the concept of innovation generated forms of literary newness that drew novelists, poets, and other creative figures working across this period into dialogic networks of experiment. The 14 chapters in this volume explore how inventions like the rotary print press or hot air balloon and emergent debates about science, trade, and colonialism evolved new forms and genres. Through their examinations of a wide range of texts and writers—from well-known novelists like Conrad, Dickens, Hardy, and Woolf, to less canonical figures like Charlotte Mew, Elías Mar, and Walter Frances White—the chapters in this collection re-read these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.