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Author Garson, Marjorie

Title Hardy's fables of integrity : woman, body, text / Marjorie Garson
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
Contents Under the greenwood tree : 'united' ooman' -- Far from the madding crowd : Venus' looking glass -- Return of the native, the woodlanders : reading the body -- Mayor of Casterbridge : the bounds of propriety -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles : the word in nature -- Jude the obscure : what does a man want?
Summary Focusing on Thomas Hardy's language and his treatment of minor characters, this study examines seven of Hardy's major novels and argues that his fiction is shaped by a pervasive anxiety about bodily and psychic disintegration
Analysis English fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-191) and index
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Subject Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Fictional works
SUBJECT Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. fast (OCoLC)fst00034596
Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Subject Didactic fiction, English -- History and criticism
Human body in literature.
Integrity in literature.
Women in literature.
Criticism and interpretation.
Didactic fiction, English.
Human body in literature.
Integrity in literature.
Women in literature.
Corps humain -- Dans la littérature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191671371
0191671371