Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and
unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the
lineage of ‘Hardyan Folk Horror’. Hardy’s novels and his
short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was,
for Hardy the recent past. Hardy’s Wessex plays out tensions
between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian,
the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in
Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the
themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and
again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This
study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis
of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film
market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and
the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and their
function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of
England’s rural past. However, there are some lesser-known
adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of
folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales.
From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that
characterize Hardy’s world, the book draws parallels between then
and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders.
Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror
Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture,
when tradition sits as a seductive threat.
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