Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads - Rilegato

Rode, Scott

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415978386 ISBN 13: 9780415978385

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native,Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure - and by mapping the road travels of his protagonists, this book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities. Balancing modern exigencies with mythic possibilities, Hardy's fictive roads exist as contested spaces that channel desire for middle-class assimilation even as they provide the means both to reinforce and to resist conformity to hegemonic authority.

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Scott Rode

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415978386
• ISBN 13: 9780415978385
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 154
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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