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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Tess of the d'Urbervilles"”.
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Thomas Hardy's experiments in narrative discourse in five tragic novels
Hardy's tragic novels are examined in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on architectonic and dialogic modes of discourse in novels. Bakhtin uses the concept of architectonics to describe an author's struggle within a literary text to give artistic unity to his protagonist's experiences. …
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The changing role and portrayal of 'the individual' in historical context in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
In an analysis of six novels published in the nineteenth century, the thesis examines the changing role and portrayal of the 'individual' in Victorian fiction. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876), and Thomas Hardy's …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
In "The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930," I argue that a new type of imperial novel emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
In literary discourse from the Genesis creation myth through John Milton's Paradise Lost and beyond, Eve has been patriarchally considered to be the bringer of Sin and Death into the world. In Paradise Lost Eve is depicted as deceiving Adam into the Fall by way of the Serpent. Paradise Lost creates …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
The changing role of women was arguably the most fundamental area of concern and crisis in the Victorian era. Recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the evolving role of women, particularly in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… dissertation, as its title suggests, is a study of gender and identification. The main body of the thesis is s consideration of four novels (Clarissa, The Scarlet Letter, Portrait of a Lady, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles), all of which are centered around a heroine defined by her suffering. In …
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The theme of alienation in the major novels of Thomas Hardy
The predicament of human isolation and alienation is a pervasive theme that has not been sufficiently studied in Thomas Hardy's fiction. This study investigates the theme of alienation focussing on Hardy's major novels. Although the term 'alienation' is one of the most outstanding features of this …
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Structure and meaning in Hardy's fiction: an examination of three major novels
<p>Thus, though there is a considerable amount of criticism on [Thomas Hardy’s] novels, there is a clear absence of any significant close structural reading. The study which follows proposes to fill this gap offering an examination of three novels that is neither synoptically nor microscopically …