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"Thomas Hardy: Use Of History In ""the Mayor Of Casterbridge"" And ""tess Ofthe D'urbervilles."""
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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 Function of Natural Imagery as Applied to Henchard in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge
<p>The Mayor of Casterbridge, the second of Hardy's four great Wessex novels, concentrates almost exclusively on Michael Henchard, "a man of character," whose impulsiveness, which is, perhaps, his dominant personality trait, catapults much of the action in the book and leads to his downfall, in The …
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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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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
The purpose of this research is to investigate Thomas Hardy’s relation to the Gothic tradition, especially that deriving from the classic period 1760-mid-1820s. The main novels chosen for such an investigation are Two on a Tower, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the …
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Protection of the self, compassion toward the other : Thomas Hardy examined through folk theory of mind.
… I am using a conceptual framework known as Folk Theory of Mind to shed new insights on Thomas Hardy's five most well‐known novels: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Folk Theory of Mind is an area of …
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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 …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
"Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural nation with modest territorial holdings to an urban industrial power with an expansive imperial presence. This dissertation, ""Victorian Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after …