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Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book reassesses Hardy's fiction in the light of his prolonged
engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England.
Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played
in the novels by such customs and beliefs as 'overlooking',
hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire
nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the
'Portland Custom'. This study shows how such traditions were lived
out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in
written texts - in literature, newspapers, county histories,
folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival
documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy's
repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his
engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and
reveals how his efforts to resist their 'excellently neat'
categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of
belief, progress, and social change.
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