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The Women In The Novels Of Thomas Hardy In Their Relation To The Philosophy Embodied In His Work
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Book Synopsis The Women in the Novels of Thomas Hardy in Their Relation to the Philosophy Embodied in His Work by : Lucia Eugenia Campbell
Download or read book The Women in the Novels of Thomas Hardy in Their Relation to the Philosophy Embodied in His Work written by Lucia Eugenia Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexing Hardy written by Margaret Elvy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEXING HARDY: THOMAS HARDY AND FEMINISM There are surprisingly few feminist analyses of the work of British novelist Thomas Hardy, and most do not get beyond vague notions of sexism and misogynism, in the Kate Millett and second wave feminist manner. Margaret Elvy's book, however, uses up-to-date research in the fields of cultural studies, feminist poetics, gay, lesbian and queer theory. This new, postmodern and incisive exploration of Thomas Hardy offers an exciting and radical reappraisal of the discourses of gender, desire, class, economy, socialization, identity and patriarchy in his fiction and poetry. This new edition of Sexing Hardy includes a new introduction and a new bibliography. EXTRACT FORM CHAPTER ONE: "THOMAS HARDY AND FEMINISM" Is Thomas Hardy a feminist? Are Thomas Hardy's works feminist? How much do his works reflect and bolster the patriarchal attitudes and beahviour of his era, and how much do they question them? What is the relation between Hardy and the feminists of his time? And what is the link between Hardy's works and the feminism of the early 21st century? Thomas Hardy's theme is what you might call 'Wessexuality', 'Wes-sex-mania', Wessexual politics. Hardy's works are sexist, patriarchal and masculinist, and yet they question notions of sexism, gender, identity, patriarchy and masculinism. A text such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles is 'traditional', and follows patriarchal codes and morals. Yet it also questions them, and offers a number of feminist critiques of late 19th century society. In his letters, Thomas Hardy proposed feminist views; he wrote to feminists such as the suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett that a child was the mother's own business, not the father's (Collected Letters, 3, 238). One can see these feminist sentiments in, for example, Hardy's treatment of Tess in her motherhood: she works in the fields just a few weeks after the birth, even though she is melancholy (she seems to be suffering a mild form of post-natal depression). Tess further subverts patriarchy by taking her child's baptism into her own hands. She goes against her father, the vicar, and the whole church with her self-made baptism. ...] Thomas Hardy's novels were not always received favourably by women critics and readers. Hardy's own views, expressed outside of the novels, did not always square with those of feminists of the 1880s and 1890s. The ideological gap between Hardy and the women critics and feminists of the late 19th century is illustrated by Hardy's remark to Edmund Yates (in 1891): 'many of my novels have suffered so much from misrepresentation as being attacks on womankind' (Collected Letters, I, 250). Hardy hoped that works such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles would redress the balance.
Book Synopsis Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy by : Rosemarie Morgan
Download or read book Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women in Thomas Hardy's novels appear to have no control over their conduct or their destiny. In this book, Rosemarie Morgan argues a contrary case. Hardy's women struggle, sometimes winning, often losing, but they are not tame objects to be manipulated. Their resistance emerges in their sexuality, a quality which Hardy was often forced to cloak or disguise. Rosemarie Morgan resurrects Hardy's voluptuous heroines and restores to them the physical, sexual reality which Hardy sees as their birthright, but which the male-dominated world they inhabit seeks to deny them, both within and beyond the novel.
Book Synopsis The Feminist Sensibility in the Novels of Thomas Hardy by : Manjit Kaur
Download or read book The Feminist Sensibility in the Novels of Thomas Hardy written by Manjit Kaur and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Desire by : Jane Thomas
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Desire written by Jane Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy's Women by : PETER. TAIT
Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Women written by PETER. TAIT and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy was always fascinated by women. While in life his relationships were often fraught and unhappy, through the heroines of his novels we can see into his sole. This book assesses the influence of Hardy's closest female friends and family on his life and his work and looks at how his response to them moulded his creative genius.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent by : J. Thomas
Download or read book Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent written by J. Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent offers original and detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well-Beloved , demonstrating Hardy's peculiarly modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary debate and the woman question this book reveals a new politically engaged rather than a grimly pessimistic Hardy.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy's Heroines by : Pamela Jekel
Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Heroines written by Pamela Jekel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy is known for his unconventional portrayal of female characters. In Victorian literature, his women are surprisingly complex, sexual, and even "heroic." Jekel's study discusses the development of Hardy's heroines, contrasts them with typical Victorian feminine standards, and compares them to the women who Hardy knew in his personal life.
Book Synopsis The Novels of Thomas Hardy by : Penelope Vigar
Download or read book The Novels of Thomas Hardy written by Penelope Vigar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What he himself characteristically called 'his idiosyncratic mode of regard' is a factor few readers of Hardy's novels can overlook and one with which all serious students of his fiction must come to terms. The fact that there is nevertheless little final agreement about the nature of his achievement has prompted Miss Vigar to make a fresh study of Hardy's own notes and essays on the art of the novel and to analyse his fictional technique in the light of these unduly neglected observations. Her approach centres on Hardy's pervasive theme of the contrast between appearance and reality and on his frequent use of 'pictorial' devices to express his imaginative vision. She is able to develop a critical account of Hardy's work that can convincingly explain, by reference to the same criteria, both its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and failures.
Book Synopsis Fear and Fascination by : Anita Sandlin
Download or read book Fear and Fascination written by Anita Sandlin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: The tragic outcomes of most of his fictional heroines have led many to accuse Thomas Hardy of being a misogynist, harshly punishing women for their open defiance of Victorian social expectations. However, by writing about sexually-charged issues at a time when subjects such as premarital sex, rape, illegitimate children, adultery, and divorce were taboo, Hardy challenged his readers to consider the destructive power caused by hypocrisy and double standards, making many consider him to be among the first feminists. These conflicting perspectives reflect the internal ambiguities of a gifted man torn between wanting to maintain the conservative comfort of the Victorian era while yearning for the more equitable freedom of the Modern era. Spanning the course of six decades, the literary works of Thomas Hardy note the evolution of the New Woman, particularly in his novels. From the accepting and submissive Cythera Graye in his first book to the questioning and defiant Sue Bridehead in his last written novel, Hardy documented the growth of the independent woman, as well as her struggles for acceptance and unconditional love. Though his heroines become stronger and more determined with each novel, Hardy maintains a consistency in their natures, indicating an essentialist view. All of his female characters are inherently passive, a trait that makes them vulnerable, though not inferior. Hardy worked to reconcile his adherence in the belief of a natural difference between men and women while advocating for equality between them. A close examination of the fictional heroines in his major novels, a study on his personal experience, philosophy, and the perspective of a woman who knew him demonstrate that Thomas Hardy did not hate women; he hated the artifice of contrived relationships. A selfdescribed meliorist, Hardy held hope for a better world but feared society was leaving itself without a future with the oppressive treatment of women. Though quiet and reserved in his personal life, Thomas Hardy loved intelligent, strong-minded women, but he feared the potential power of the emerging New Woman figures as much as he feared a world without them.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Women by : Penny Boumelha
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Women written by Penny Boumelha and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Women by : Penny Boumelha
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Women written by Penny Boumelha and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the New: " Bodies, Children and Futures in Hardy's Novels.'
Book Synopsis A Comparitive Study of Women's Roles in the Literature of Thomas Hardy and Henrik Ibsen by : Janice L. McQuilkin
Download or read book A Comparitive Study of Women's Roles in the Literature of Thomas Hardy and Henrik Ibsen written by Janice L. McQuilkin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the respective literary careers of British novelist Thomas Hardy and Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen are distinguished by each man's unique achievements and artistic talents, an examination of their work also reveals some notable connections between the two writers. In a passage from his Philosophies in Modern Fiction (1965), Braybrooke linked Hardy's pessimism to Ibsen's "cold despair," a connection that prompted this comparative study between these two great iterary figures. As Braybrooke points out, the "cold despair" of Ibsen's dramatic world is also a quality consistently found in Hardy's fiction. This tone of pessimism has been a frequently discussed topic in the criticism of both Hardy's and Ibsen's writings. Although this aspect of their work cannot be overlooked or denied, the label of "pessimist" has sometimes limited the further exploration of each man's work. Hardy's and Ibsen's literary careers overlapped almost exactly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. During this period of literature writers had begun to criticize their society, and Hardy and Ibsen were illustrative of this movement. While Hardy's criticism of society is often overshadowed by his portrayal of the plight of human nature in a naturalistic environment, Ibsen's attack on society is more bold. As seen in many of Hardy's major novels (with a primary focus on Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure) and a sampling of Ibsen's plays, these two men surprised their Victorian audience with some rather controversial subject matter. Interestingly, their controversial material often revolved around the changing role of women in society and the evolution of the female psyche. A comparison of Hardy's and Ibsen's numerous portraits of women as individuals, as members of society, in relation to men, and in their journey toward a developed consciousness constitutes the focus of this study"--Document.
Book Synopsis A General Drama of Pain by : Bernard J. Paris
Download or read book A General Drama of Pain written by Bernard J. Paris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novels--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure--highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy's genius in creating imagined human beings. He demonstrates that while Hardy tends to blame external conditions for his characters' painful fates, their downfalls are due to a very complex combination of cosmic, social, and psychological factors. Hardy's characters are usually discussed primarily in thematic terms. The characters are are so richly portrayed, Paris argues, that they can be better understood independent of Hardy's interpretations, in motivational terms and he utilizes the psychologist Karen Horney's theories to recover Hardy's intuitions. The characters are full of inner conflicts that make them difficult to fathom, but the approach Paris employs explains their contradictions and illuminates their troubled relationships--shedding light on these expertly crafted imagined human beings. This psychological approach to Hardy's characters enables us to understand his characters and gain insight into the implied authors of the works. In addition, the approach shows Hardy's authorial personality. We can see that Hardy treats some defensive strategies more sympathetically than others. Given his view of life as a general drama of pain, resignation, like that of Hardy's character Elizabeth-Jane, is the strategy he prefers.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction by : Sophie Gilmartin
Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction written by Sophie Gilmartin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Animals by : Anna West
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Animals written by Anna West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism by : George Wotton
Download or read book Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism written by George Wotton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
