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Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels

Megamachines and Phantasms

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  • © 2003

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  1. David Musselwhite

    1. University of Essex, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Interrupted Return

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 23-49

  4. The Exploding Body of The Mayor of Casterbridge

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 50-88

  5. Tess of the d’Urbervilles

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 89-107

  6. Tess

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 108-144

  7. Retranslating Jude the Obscure I

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 145-154

  8. Traversing The Well-Beloved

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 155-169

  9. Retranslating Jude the Obscure II

    • David Musselwhite
    Pages 170-190

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 191-225
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About this book

Drawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy's Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking rereading of Hardy's four major tragic novels. The readings are sophisticated and yet accessible. The theoretical work is complemented by the use of new and hitherto unregarded major empirical findings that reveal the very heart of Hardy's creative universe.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Essex, UK

    David Musselwhite

About the author

DAVID MUSSELWHITE is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex, UK. He is responsible for courses on Literary Theory, Latin American Literature, the European Enlightenment and the English Novel. He has published work in all four areas and his book on the English Novel (Partings Welded Together) was published in 1987.

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