03559nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-40110-7 DE-He213 20251030110819.0 cr nn 008mamaa 230928s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031401107 978-3-031-40110-7 10.1007/978-3-031-40110-7 doi PN3311-3503 F bicssc FIC000000 bisacsh F thema Ebbatson, Roger. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 66298 Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy [electronic resource] / by Roger Ebbatson. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 154 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. ‘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. This 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). Fiction. 66299 Literature, Modern 19th century. 66300 European literature. 66301 Poetry. 66137 Fiction Literature. 66302 Nineteenth-Century Literature. 66303 European Literature. 66304 Poetry and Poetics. 66141 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031401091 Printed edition: 9783031401114 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40110-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 56342 56342