Thomas Hardy and Women Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form

This internationally acclaimed work offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. Penny Boumelha here examines his writing in the light of its central concern with women and marriage. The author traces Hardy's development from the early novels, in which the male and female natures are polarities, to the later fictions. This culminated in 'Jude the Obscure', in which there are marked similarities between the two protagonists and where the heroine's tragedy resides not in any given idea of female nature, but in her specific experiences as a woman.

ISBN:	9781911454717
Publisher:	Edward Everett Root Publishers
Imprint:	Edward Everett Root Publishers
Published date:	30 Apr 2018
DEWEY:	823.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 200
Weight:	294g
Height:	142mm
Width:	217mm
Spine width:	16mm

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