Overview
- Discusses a wide range of Hardy's work, including well-known novels and less familiar poems
- Draws on critical theory and philosophy, particularly the Frankfurt school and Lyotard, Deleuze and Derrida
- Examines Hardy’s texts in the context of critical literature and intellectual movements
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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
Authors: Roger Ebbatson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40110-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40109-1Published: 29 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40110-7Published: 28 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 154
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Poetry and Poetics