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Mentally, Hardy
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 398–402.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Linda M. Shires Keen Suzanne , Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination Columbus : Ohio State UP , 2014 , pp. 236, Cloth, $64.95 ; CD $14.95 Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Many Victorian scientists, including those writing from...
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Hardy's Unnecessary Lives: The Novel as Surplus
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Emily Steinlight Thomas Hardy's novels are notorious for the grim inevitability with which their characters fall prey to biological and sociological forces beyond their control. Jude the Obscure in particular, culminating in the suicide of its protagonist's children “because we are too menny...
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Hardy's Wessex and the Natural History of Chance
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Mario Ortiz-Robles Thomas Hardy's naturalism offers a view of human affairs based on probable outcomes that makes visible the biopolitical realignments of society at the end of the nineteenth century. In this essay, the figure of the animal in Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) acts as a test case...
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Obscure Forms: The Letter, the Law, and the Line in Hardy's Social Geometry
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Anna Kornbluh There could scarcely be a novel more searingly critical of social contradictions than Thomas Hardy's last, and arguably the last Victorian one, Jude the Obscure . Between its Pauline epigraph (“the letter killeth”) and its unforgettable tragedy (“done because we are too menny”), Jude...
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The Rise of the State as a Sympathetic Liberal Subject in Hardy's The Woodlanders
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 62–85.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Zarena Aslami This essay argues that Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders registers a historic shift in the political imaginary of late nineteenth-century Britain: the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor endowed with the capacity to step in and ameliorate one's pain. While...
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“Outside the Gates of Everything”: Hardy's Exclusionary Realism
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 381–400.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Audrey Jaffe Focusing on scenes of exclusion in The Return of the Native, The Woodlanders , and Jude the Obscure , this article argues that Hardy reveals realist representation to be structured by a dynamic of inclusion and exclusion. Rather than claim Hardy as a realist or antirealist, the article...
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Thomas Hardy's Modern Peasant
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Erag Ramizi Abstract This article reads Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles as one instance of the way literary engagements with the peasant question in late nineteenth-century Europe at once shed light onto the lived experiences of rural populations and elaborated the theoretical...
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Hardy’s Transatlantic Wessex: Constructing the Local in The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 97–117.
Published: 01 May 2005
... in the Work of Thomas Hardy . Oxford: Clarendon, 1986 . Cox , Robert George . Thomas Hardy, the Critical Heritage . London: Routledge, 1970 . Gallagher , Catherine . The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832–1867 . Chicago: U of Chicago P...
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Pitying the Sheep in Far from the Madding Crowd
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Ivan Kreilkamp Henry James famously remarked of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd that “[e]verything human in the book strikes us as factitious and insubstantial; the only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs.” This comment is generally taken as a simple putdown, but it can also...
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In Default of Providence: Tragedy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Anick S. Rolland Abstract Reconsidering Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman in view of newly discovered textual discrepancies between editions and critical scholarship, this essay makes a necessary intervention in the reading tradition of the rape-fall-punishment triad...
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Alone with Tess
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 18–44.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Alicia Christoff This essay traces the connections between Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and the work of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic writer D. W. Winnicott, particularly his essay “The Capacity to Be Alone” (1958). It argues that reading Hardy alongside British object...
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Scale in Tess in Scale
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
... time, challenges to historicist literary interpretation have sought to rescale the temporal units we use to contextualize the objects we study. This essay argues that Thomas Hardy's novels, which often address inhuman scales of time, reveal how literary debates about scale might productively contribute...
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Rumor, Reputation, and Sensation in Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Daniel Williams This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation...
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Listening to “the Squirrel's Heart Beat”
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
... sisters (Emily's Wuthering Heights , Charlotte's Jane Eyre , and Anne's Agnes Grey ); Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Great Expectations ; George Eliot's Middlemarch ; Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (with passages from Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure ); Arthur Conan...
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Incalculably Diffusive
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 287–291.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and rewarding study of the Victorian novel and object relations psychoanalysis. First of all, it is a major contribution to the criticism on George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. The book's sustained and attentive readings of The Mill on the Floss , Middlemarch , The Return of the Native , and Tess...
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Recovering Character's Science
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 138–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., Hardy, and numerous New Women novelists of the 1880s and 1890s. The belief that character and individuality emerged less as a consequence of subjective decisions or agency than as a consequence of dynamic material forces encouraged these authors, for example, to represent individuals “whose effect...
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Nostalgia without Nostalgia
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and complexity of its vision. While readers of Novel will be particularly interested
in its final chapter, on Thomas Hardy, the center of the study concerns Victorian sentimen-
talism. Austin’s originality should be essential reading for anyone working on Charles
Dickens or the many other novelist...
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Bleaker House, Harder Times
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2012
... form of satirical realism, as Matz terms it. The progeny of this coupling
include some of the bleakest novels penned in the English language: Thomas Hardy’s Jude
the Obscure, George Gissing’s New Grub Street, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. (The fourth
writer Matz examines is Henrik Ibsen...
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“Feeling Real”: The Stakes of Victorian Realism
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that these conventions are illusions and contingent, but we act as if they are realities. In practice, this argument results in readings that aerate the ground of well-trodden novels such as Eliot's Adam Bede , Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist , Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge , Trollope's The Warden...
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Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather's Semidetached Modernism
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... in the novel as representing the experience rather than the actuality of the world. This always comes, though, with a distinctive Hardy-like wrinkle: the physical world is inescapably present, its material lineaments overlaid with but not obliterated by the afterlife of strong feeling or recollected memory...
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