Abstract
Chapter 13 shows how Hardy inscribed in Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) the threat of religious factionalism, class alienation, imperialism and war.
Before turning to the four ‘tragic’ novels, Part III deals with the evolution of Hardy’s historical thought.
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T. Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford World’s Classics, intr. L. M. Shires (Oxford, 2002).
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For example, I. Howe, Thomas Hardy (London, 1968), p. 1.
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I. Gregor, The Great Web: The Form of Hardy’s Major Fiction (London, 1974), p. 49.
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R. Williams, The Country and the City (London, 1973), ch. 3, pp. 13–34, esp. 21.
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For discussion of this religious census, see K. T. Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846–1886 (Oxford, 1998), pp. 430ff.
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W. Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism (London, 1875), p. 24, quoted in P. T. Marsh, The Victorian Church in Decline: Archbishop Tait and the Church of England, 1868–1882 (London, 1969), p. 116 n. 12.
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Marsh, The Victorian Church in Decline, esp. pp. 158–241. See also O. Chadwick, The Victorian Church: Part II 1860–1901 (London, 1970), esp. pp. 322–366.
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All references are to Far from the Madding Crowd, ed. and introduced, L. Shires (Oxford, 2002).
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The Book of Revelations, III: 16, in The Holy Bible, King James Version.
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See Raymond Chapman, ‘“Arguing About the Eastward Position”: Thomas Hardy and Puseyism,’ Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 42, 1987, pp. 275–94.
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Marsh, Victorian Church, pp. 75f.
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Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor, p. 392.
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For a fuller treatment of this issue, see F. Reid, ‘Art and ideology in Far from the Madding Crowd’, Thomas Hardy Annual, No. IV, ed. N. Page (London 1986), pp. 91–126.
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On allusions to Cobbett, see Reid, ‘Art and ideology’, esp. pp. 105ff.
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Cobbett, Rural Rides, quoted in Reid, ‘Art and ideology’, p. 106.
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Gregor, Great Web, p. 51.
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E.g. T. R. Wright, Hardy and the Erotic (London, 1989).
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E.g. C. Jackson-Houlston, ‘Thomas Hardy’s use of traditional song’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 44, 1989, pp. 300–34, esp. 325ff.
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R. Owen, The Marriage System of the New Moral World, with a Faint Outline of the Present Very Irrational System as Developed in a Course of Ten Lectures by Robert Owen (Manchester and London, 1839), Lecture First.
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The Holy Bible, King James Version, Mat., 7: vii.
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Bjork, Psychological Vision, pp. 79f.
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Comte, General View, pp. 251f.
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Bjork, Psychological Vision, p. 94.
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As Bjork does in Psychological Vision, pp. 11–22.
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Plato, The Republic, tr. B. Jowett (Project Gutenberg online edn.), Book V.
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E. P. Thompson, ‘Rough music: Le Charivari anglais’, Annales, xxvii, (1972), pp. 286, 294; reprinted in E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (London, 1991), pp. 467–531.
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Goode, Offensive Truth, p. 26.
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Paulin, Thomas Hardy, p. 17.
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Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 118.
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Annette C. Baier has suggested such an application of Hume, but she does not cite Mill as one of her forerunners. See her ‘Hume: the reflective women’s epistemologist?’, in A. J. Jacobson, Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (Pennsylvania State University, 2000), pp. 19–38.
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Mill, Subjection of Women, p. 21f.
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Hardy, Blue Eyes, p. 252.
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Radford, Thomas Hardy, pp. 6–9, 24–29. See also Zeitler, Representations of Culture, pp. 8f.
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Under the Greenwood Tree, pp. 44f.
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Reid, F. (2017). ‘Lead Kindly Light’: Satire and History in Far From the Madding Crowd . In: Thomas Hardy and History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54175-4_13
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