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Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent

Reassessing the 'Minor' Novels

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  • © 1999

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  1. Jane Thomas

    1. Department of English, The University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 1-10

  3. Hardy and ‘The Thinking World’

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 11-26

  4. The Question of ‘Woman’

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 27-51

  5. Desperate Remedies (1871): The ‘Martyrdom of Self-Conceit’

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 52-68

  6. A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): Policing the Self

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 69-84

  7. The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): The Limits of Resistance

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 85-95

  8. A Laodicean (1881): Power and Agency

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 96-112

  9. Two on a Tower (1886): ‘The Artificial System of Things’

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 113-130

  10. The Well-Beloved (1897): Galatea’s Revenge

    • Jane Thomas
    Pages 131-146

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 147-172
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Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent offers original and detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well-Beloved , demonstrating Hardy's peculiarly modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary debate and the woman question this book reveals a new politically engaged rather than a grimly pessimistic Hardy.

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Thomas's analysis makes clear that Hardy's minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones... Victorian Studies

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  • Department of English, The University of Hull, UK

    Jane Thomas

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Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.

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