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Representations of culture : Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology / Michael A. Zeitler.
Penn Museum Library PR4757.S46 Z45 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeitler, Michael A., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Settings.
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Knowledge and learning--Wessex (England).
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Wessex novels.
- Wessex (England)--In literature.
- Wessex (England).
- Culture in literature.
- Local history in literature.
- Manners and customs in literature.
- Country life in literature.
- Regionalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Victorian anthropology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thomas Hardy, Wessex, and the critics
- The science of culture : anthropology and the creation of Wessex
- Beginnings : descriptions of local culture
- Wessex past and present : primitive and modern in The return of the native
- An experiment in tragic form : anthropological ritual and symbolic representation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Beyond myth : the presence of the past in Jude the obscure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-143) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820488143
- 9780820488141
- OCLC:
- 70335232
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