Thomas Hardy, femininity and dissent reassessing the minor novels /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Jane, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
xi, 172 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Characters -- Women.
Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Fictional works.
Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Femininity in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Self in literature.
Contents:
  • Hardy and "the thinking world"
  • The question of 'woman'
  • Desperate remedies (1871): the 'martyrdom of self-conceit'
  • A pair of blue eyes (1873): policing the self
  • The hand of Ethelberta (1876): the limits of resistance
  • A Laodicean (1881): 'the artificial system of things'
  • The well-beloved (1897): Galatea's revenge.

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