Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions
Author : Trish Ferguson
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File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Trish Ferguson
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Trish Ferguson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748673253
Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre's engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.
Author : Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748691180
Author : William A. Davis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874137989
Throughout his fiction, Hardy offers a representation of life - particularly female life - as an evolving legal spectacle, one in which the law enables yet also interferes with human plans in the earlier fiction and eventually "prescribes" human life in the later works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
PREFACE. This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the greater to them as men. But, on the publication of the book people seemed to be less struck with these high aims of the author than with their own opinion, first, that the novel was an ‘improper’ one in its morals, and, secondly, that it was intended to be a satire on the Established Church of this country. I was made to suffer in consequence from several eminent pens. That, however, was thirteen years ago, and, in respect of the first opinion, I venture to think that those who care to read the story now will be quite astonished at the scrupulous propriety observed therein on the relations of the sexes; for though there may be frivolous, and even grotesque touches on occasion, there is hardly a single caress in the book outside legal matrimony, or what was intended so to be.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
Page : 1980 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1927854830
This special ebook edition includes four of Thomas Hardy's best-known novels: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1892
Category : English fiction
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Author : OAC Review Index
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3985948666
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. - Thomas Hardy ; Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Though now considered a major 19th-century English novel, even Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
Author : Thomas Hardy
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : England
ISBN : 9780679600787
This volume contains two of Thomas Hardy's novels, Tess of The d'Urbervilles and Jude The Obscure. Tess Of the d'Urbervilles is hopelessly torn between her desire for two men. And Jude the Obscure offers an indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion.