03158nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001400169072002300183072001300206100007800219245011200297250001800409264007900427300003400506336002600540337002600566338003600592347002400628505060200652520108401254650001302338650003802351650002502389650001202414650002402426650003502450650002502485650002402510710003402534773002602568776003602594776003602630856004602666978-3-031-40110-7DE-He21320251030110819.0cr nn 008mamaa230928s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314011077 a10.1007/978-3-031-40110-72doi 4aPN3311-3503 7aF2bicssc 7aFIC0000002bisacsh 7aF2thema1 aEbbatson, Roger.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aPerception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardyh[electronic resource] /cby Roger Ebbatson.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXII, 154 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. ‘The Bride-Night Fire’: Hardy & the Voice of the Folk -- 2. A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Cliff-Scene and the Literary Sublime -- 3. Moments of (Technological) Vision -- 4. ‘The Withered Arm’ and History -- 5. (Un)Binding the Sheaves: Selfhood and Labour in Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- 6. ‘The Open’: Hardy and Jefferies -- 7. The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity -- 8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle -- 9. Wayfaring -- 10. Hardy’s Lyric Voice: ‘Beeny Cliff’ -- 11. ‘The Face at the Casement’: Window Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry.  aThis book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure. Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016). 0aFiction. 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aEuropean literature. 0aPoetry.14aFiction Literature.24aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aEuropean Literature.24aPoetry and Poetics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303140109108iPrinted edition:z978303140111440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40110-7