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Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure - A Critical Study (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R734
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Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure - A Critical Study (Hardcover, New): Margaret Elvy

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure - A Critical Study (Hardcover, New)

Margaret Elvy

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THOMAS HARDY'S JUDE THE OBSCURE

A study of Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory.

Illustrated, with notes and a bibiography.

Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy's last novel, is a sister (or brother) book to Tess of the d'Urbervilles, before he turned to poetry and other forms of writing. The author attacks similar targets: the family, politics, religion, marriage, education and sexuality. Hardy was on fire when he wrote Jude the Obscure - it is a very angry work.

Jude the Obscure, though, contains far more polemic and philosophizing than Tess or any of the earlier novels. The preaching and polemic threatens to undo the narrative, which is nevertheless 'realist', like other Thomas Hardy fictions.

In Jude the Obscure, Hardy was stretching the novel to the limit, testing the boundaries of what is 'acceptable'. In Jude the Obscure, the things that say 'you shan't' are, variously, God, religion, education, circumstance, chance, nature, and marriage. All of the institutions and 'causes' reside inside the individual, which is what makes the problems they create so difficult to deal with for Sue and Jude. Patriarchy, culture and society are not in some 'out there' space, but in people. Hardy's thoughts on Jude the Obscure, as expressed in the Life and letters, include his desire for a novel about characters 'into whose souls the iron has entered'; a desire to make the story 'grimy' in order to heighten the contrast between the ideal life and the 'squalid real life'; the novel 'makes for morality', Hardy said; and ended up 'a mass of imperfections', a remark many artists have made of their work.

General

Imprint: Crescent Moon Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2010
First published: March 2010
Authors: Margaret Elvy
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages: 188
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-86171-271-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN: 1-86171-271-5
Barcode: 9781861712714

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