Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

Morgan, Rosemarie

ISBN 10: 0415058503 / ISBN 13: 9780415058506

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1ST.

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Synopsis:

The women in Thomas Hardy's novels appear to have no control over their conduct or their destiny. In this book, now in paperback, Rosemarie Morgan argues a contrary case. Hardy's women struggle, sometimes winning, often losing, but they are not tame objects to be manipulated. Their resistance emerges in their sexuality, a quality which Hardy was often forced to cloak or disguise. Rosemarie Morgan resurrects Hardy's voluptuous heroines and restores to them the physical, sexual reality which Hardy sees as their birthright, but which the male-dominated world they inhabit seeks to deny them, both within and beyond the novel.

About the Author:

ROSEMARIE MORGAN, editor and publisher of the annual Hardy Review, has taught at Yale University since 1984 and is currently holding a research fellowship. She is president of the Hardy Association, vice president of the Hardy Society, editorial consultant to Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, "Years Work" essayist for Victorian Poetry and has published the holograph manuscript of Far From the Madding Crowd as well as essays on Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison, Mary Chestnut, and women writers of the American Frontier. Her major works are Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1988) and Cancelled Words (1992).