LEADER 03370nam 22005535 450 001 9910760273603321 005 20250808085204.0 010 $a9783031401107 010 $a3031401107 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-40110-7 035 $a(CKB)5840000000405957 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-40110-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000405957 100 $a20230928d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy /$fby Roger Ebbatson 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 154 p.) 311 08$a9783031401091 311 08$a3031401093 327 $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. 330 $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). 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aPoetry 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 676 $a809.3 700 $aEbbatson$b Roger$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0166676 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910760273603321 996 $aPerception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy$94334890 997 $aUNINA