Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads (Studies in Major Literary Authors) - Softcover

Rode, Scott

 
9780415762908: Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
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ISBN 10: 0415762901 ISBN 13: 9780415762908
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415762901
ISBN 13 
9780415762908
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
156

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