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A fictionalized account of the final years of Thomas Hardy's life sees the premiere of the London theatre production of his acclaimed \"Tess of the D'Urbervilles\" and his obsessive infatuation with the show's star revealed to his reclusive wife.
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The afterlife of enclosure : British realism, character, and the commons
The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of \"slow violence\" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical British writers—Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy—as narrators of this history, the long duration and diffuse effects of which required new literary forms to capture the lived experience of enclosure and its aftermath.
This study boldly reconceives the realist novel, not as an outdated artifact, but as witness to the material and environmental dispossession of enclosure—and bearer of utopian energies. These writers reinvented a commons committed to the collective nature of the social world. Illuminating the common at the heart of the novel—from common characters to commonplace events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals an experimental figuration of the lost commons, once a defining feature of the British landscape and political imaginary. In the face of privatization, climate change, new enclosures, and the other forms of slow violence unfolding globally today, this book looks back to a literature of historical trauma and locates within it a radical path forward.
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Max Gate : a novel
\"1928. As Thomas Hardy lies on his death bed at his Dorset home, Max Gate, a tug-of-war is taking place over his legacy ... and the eventual fate of his mortal remains. What counts for more: the wishes of his family and dutiful second wife, Florence? the opinion of his literary friends? Hardy's own express desires? or 'the will of the nation'? Narrated with wit and brutal honesty by housemaid Nellie Titterington, Max Gate is both an entertaining insight into the eccentricities of a writer's life, and a raw, intriguing tale of torn loyalty, ownership and jealousy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cancelled Words
The manuscript of Hardy's first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy's work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words' which were the result of a long struggle with Sir Leslie Stephen, Hardy's editor. Cancelled Words reveals the manner in which Hardy worked, his resistance to censorship, his obsessive attention to detail and precision, and the often concealed processes underlying his authorship. Ultimately, it serves to shape our understanding of the development of the modern novel.
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EDITOR'S NOTES
While I would have loved to continue indefinitely in this role, I recognise that the time has come to pass the baton and allow another early career researcher to benefit from the invaluable knowledge, experience, and growth that I have been fortunate enough to experience over the past few years. Hugh Epstein's exploration of 'tendency' in Hardy's fiction offers a critical analysis of Hardy's preoccupation with 'the unconscious, somatic, and affective operations of human nature' over reason, revealing how these instinctual forces shape both character development and narrative structure. [...]Tony Fincham's lecture on The Dynasts offers an engaging examination of one of Hardy's lesser-known works, reaffirming its position as 'one of the most effective denunciations of war in English literature'.
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Thomas Hardy's Betraying Heart: Realism and Bodily Affect
This article examines how Thomas Hardy's fiction turns to the heart as a privileged figure for grappling with one of the great philosophical challenges of the novel form: how to put the corporeality of emotional experience into words? It contextualizes Hardy's cardiac poetics in relation to historical and contemporary scientific and medical understandings of bodily affect. The conclusion argues that Hardy's heart-centered strategies of affective description can at once illuminate his uneasy relationship with realism's normative operations and pluralize critical understanding of realism and its characteristic methods for dramatizing philosophical accounts of human experience.
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Economic woman : demand, gender, and narrative closure in Eliot and Hardy
\"Shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism. Economic Woman is the first book to address directly the links between classical political economy and gender in the novel. Examining key works by Eliot and Hardy, including The Mill on the Floss and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Kreisel investigates the meaning of two female representations: the 'economic woman,' who embodies idealized sexual restraint and wise domestic management, and the degraded prostitute, characterized by sexual excess and economic turmoil.\"--Publisher description.
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FELLOW CRAFTSMEN? THOMAS HARDY’S DEALINGS WITH HALL CAINE
Hardy mentions this in one sentence in Life and Work, in a paragraph evoking various curiosities of 'the London of Dickens and Thackeray'; and the record of his various measurements (including his apparently large animal faculty of 'destructiveness', but equally large one of 'constructiveness') was still among his papers at his death.1 It is not so well known that, some thirty years later, Hardy was again the subject of a phrenological analysis, albeit one based on his published photograph rather than his actual head. Hardy's 'wide, long, well-raised nose' also indicates 'love of deduction, and thoughtfulness', and his eye 'power of language, and the ability to express the ideas conceived, in words'.2 The aim of Stocker's article, which is similarly gushing towards all its subjects, seems to have been to elevate the profile of 'phrenophysiognomy' as an intellectually respectable discourse ('suffice it to say that a science of \"bumps\" Phrenology is not'3) rather than challenge what he took to be established literary reputations. Caine stands out from this multitude, however, because although not known through his novels he can still command attention for various significant events and circumstances relating to them, such as the unprecedented volume of their sales; his notable successes in adapting them for stage and film; his relentless self-publicising and celebrity profile in the press; and his significant associations with other writers of the period (for example Caine lives on through being the dedicatee of Bram Stoker's Dracula).6 It was indirectly due to Caine's popularity that in 1895 Jude the Obscure, unlike all Hardy's previous novels, first appeared in book form in a single volume rather than the traditional three volumes destined for the circulating libraries. Joseph Conrad notoriously (to those who study Caine) even described Caine as 'a kind of male Marie Corelli', asserting that '[n]either of these writers belongs to literature'.9 The collocation of the two authors' names, conveniently alliterative, can be seen as a nervous response by other novelists and critics to the changes in the fiction market that Caine and Corelli were caught up in (and certainly benefited from in the short term).
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