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Thomas Hardy and desire : conceptions of the self / Jane Thomas, senior lecturer in English, University of Hull, UK.
Van Pelt Library PR4757.D47 T48 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Jane, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
- Desire in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 233 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the world and the systems in which their sense of self is expressed and constituted. Yet his work also explores the positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire. Structured around the themes of home and homelessness; eroticism; 'Poor Men and Ladies' and social aspiration; cross dressing and gendered desire; the creation of 'sapphic spaces'; aesthetic desire and its fulfilment in the achieved work of art, Thomas Hardy and Desire demonstrates Hardy's commitment, as an artist in pursuit of 'a way to the better', to exploring how the energy of desire pushes beyond the boundaries of class, sexuality, gender and even language itself to bring new ways of being and doing into the realm of knowledge. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self
- House and home: nostalgic desire and the locus of being
- Desire, female amity and Sapphic space
- Sexual desire and the lure of the erotic
- Poor men and ladies: aspirational desire
- As you like it: cross-dressing and the gendered expression of desire
- Art, aesthetics and masculine desire: The well beloved (1897)
- 'Scanned across the dark space': poetry, desire and aesthetic fulfilment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230224636
- 0230224636
- OCLC:
- 825196389
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