LEADER 03221nam 22005895 450 001 9910255243403321 005 20251030105726.0 010 $a9781137503206 010 $a1137503203 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000869025 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-50320-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4719920 035 $a(Perlego)3483114 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000869025 100 $a20160923d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance /$fby Jacqueline Dillion 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 206 p.) 311 08$a9781137503190 311 08$a113750319X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Belief: Overlooking, Sympathetic Magic, Hag-riding, and South?s Tree -- 3. Acts of Disapproval: Skimmington Riding -- 4. Acts of Approval: The Portland Custom -- 5. Winter Customs: Bonfire Night and Mumming -- 6. Summer Customs: May Day and Midsummer Divination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Illustrations -- Index.-. 330 $aThis book reassesses Hardy?s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ?overlooking?, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ?Portland Custom.? This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts ? in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy?s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ?excellently neat? categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aLiterary History 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a809.034 700 $aDillion$b Jacqueline$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063639 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255243403321 996 $aThomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance$92533320 997 $aUNINA