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
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3031401107

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.

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms
Author: Delia Correa Sousa de
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136749993

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
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2000
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 0415238269

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.

Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism

Thomas Hardy, Towards a Materialist Criticism
Author: George Wotton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780389205647

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.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
Author: Gloria McMillan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000413977

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

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
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783031401091

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 Pastoral

Thomas Hardy's Pastoral
Author: Indy Clark
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137505028

This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.

Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind

Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind
Author: Simon Gatrell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 203
Release: 1993-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1349126314

Explores Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world - with other individual men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment and with the supernatural.