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Cover: 9783319541747 | Thomas Hardy and History | Fred Reid | Buch | XIV | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.

Über den Autor

Fred Reid is Emeritus Reader in History at Warwick University, UK. His publications include James Keir Hardie: the Making of a Socialist and In Search of Willie Patterson: a Scottish Soldier in the Age of Imperialism. He has written on the rights of visually impaired people in European labour markets.

Zusammenfassung

Written by an historian this takes a different tack from other books approaching this subject

Argues that Hardy's understanding of history was shaped both by his early exposure to the Liberal Anglican view of universal history as the gradual fulfillment of God's providence, and by his subsequent rejection of this view

Adds to the relatively small amount of work done on Hardy and history to date

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO HARDY AND HISTORY.- CHAPTER 2 The Liberal Anglican idea of history.- CHAPTER 3 Horace Moule and 'the evils of our era'.- CHAPTER 4 Walter Bagehot and the writing of history.- CHAPTER 5 Essays and Reviews: Frederick Temple and Baden Powell.- CHAPTER 6 Auguste Comte.- CHAPTER 7 George Drysdale and the Radical Hardy.- CHAPTER 8 John Stuart Mill.- CHAPTER 9 The Poor Man and the Lady.- CHAPTER 10 Desperate Remedies and Under the Greenwood Tree.- CHAPTER 11 The Franco-Prussian War.- CHAPTER 12 Satire and Romance: A Pair of Blue Eyes.- CHAPTER 13 'Lead kindly light': Satire and History in Far from the Madding Crowd.- CHAPTER 14 Hardy and Patriotism.- CHAPTER 15 Crisis of Civilisation.- CHAPTER 16 Meliorism in The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Woodlanders.- CHAPTER 17 Stopping Wedding Guests.- CHAPTER 18 LAST WORD.- FURTHER READING.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	252
Inhalt:	xiv 238 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319541747
ISBN-10:	3319541749
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Reid, Fred
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Maße:	216 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Fred Reid
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.09.2017
Gewicht:	0,443 kg