The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2010-10-01DOI: 10.1179/193489010X12858552346088
P. Lennon
{"title":"Uncollected Items Hardy: \"George Moore and John Freeman\"","authors":"P. Lennon","doi":"10.1179/193489010X12858552346088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489010X12858552346088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114904498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2010-10-01DOI: 10.1179/193489010X12858552463204
J. Farrell
{"title":"Hardy versus Wessex","authors":"J. Farrell","doi":"10.1179/193489010X12858552463204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489010X12858552463204","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hardy's distinctive creation, the world he called Wessex, has, in recent years, been increasingly regarded as a dubious construction too often used by critics in the liberal humanist tradition as the basis for seeing the Wessex Novels as mythic or tragic narratives. Materialist critics such as Goode, Fisher, Widdowson, and Wotton have argued that the effect of such readings has been to mask the social and economic practices and pressures, rooted in the Victorian class system, that are central to Hardy's novels. These critics often argue that the Wessex Novels identify both the dominating influence of class conflict in their representations of actual experience as well as Hardy's own deflections of his insights into that experience. The present essay supports the materialist critics to some extent but rejects the reduction of Wessex to a socioeconomic stage. The work of Raymond Williams is used as a critical discourse whose initiatives can enable us to see a different Wessex, one that confronts an...","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131585571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2010-10-01DOI: 10.1179/193489010X12858552346204
Anne Gagné
{"title":"\"I exercise a malignant power\": Telepathic Touch in \"The Withered Arm\"","authors":"Anne Gagné","doi":"10.1179/193489010X12858552346204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489010X12858552346204","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hardy's short story \"The Withered Arm\" highlights the use of telepathic touch, touching at a distance where the spiritual or spectral becomes material again. By first delineating the Victorian understanding of the mechanics touch, this paper explores how Rhoda Brook's apparently malignant dreamstate touch of Mrs Lodge's arm complicates the ethics of touch. Hardy's story illustrates how touch can enact violence across space, both telepathically and visually, which reconfigures boundaries and spatial relations created within the narration of the text. A movement from the metaphysical telepathic touch to a physical manifestation of contact demonstrates how the depiction and construction of embodied subjects is transformed in the short story. A relationship between the memory of touch and telepathic touch is also seen in Hardy's poem \"Haunting Fingers.\"","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"32 7-8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120897881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2010-05-01DOI: 10.1179/193489010X12858552346169
K. Callis
{"title":"American Turns inThe Return of the Native: Part II","authors":"K. Callis","doi":"10.1179/193489010X12858552346169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489010X12858552346169","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In The Return of the Native, Hardy creates an analogy between Egdon Heath and Emerson's version of North America, elaborating it throughout the novel. Its development includes a technical response: moments of dissolution and absorption occur in narrative perspective as the gap between nature and the narrator's consciousness dissolves when he both contains and is contained by the land he imagines. The symbolic strands issuing from the opening supply some of the novel's most memorable writing, as well as the visionary ground (both premise and setting) of Hardy's (in)decisive turn to tragedy. Derived from American Romanticism, this symbolism of unconditioned inwardness ironically conditions representation, setting, point of view, and narrative design in The Return of the Native.","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121165229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2010-05-01DOI: 10.1179/193489010X12663221276999
P. Graves
{"title":"“Not to Mend . . . Not to Know”: Baxter's “Call to the Unconverted” and Hardy's “God-Forgotten”","authors":"P. Graves","doi":"10.1179/193489010X12663221276999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489010X12663221276999","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Discusses a possible echo of Richard Baxter's (pamphlet) “Call to the Unconverted” in Thomas Hardy's poem “God-Forgotten.” A reading is offered wherein Hardy is implicitly countering Baxter's request that his parishioners not mend this physical reality but turn away from it. Such a turn is, through a reading of some of Hardy's poetic engagements with Judeo-Christian theology, understood to be antithetical to his vision of ameliorative human existence: whatever divine principle is available to humanity is on offer in the physical world, and thus the possible echo in “God-Forgotten” of Baxter's phrasing would serve as a rejection of the exhortatory terms of his popular Puritan pamphlet.","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116455808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1179/193489109X417860
Ilaria Mallozzi
{"title":"Darwin, Hardy, and Bergson — A Glimpse of Continuity?","authors":"Ilaria Mallozzi","doi":"10.1179/193489109X417860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489109X417860","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract “The principle of spontaneity” is a central idea in Hardy's poetry; his passion for irregularity (intensifying the appearance of spontaneity) had been learned while working as an architect. See “Memories of Church Restoration”: nature is always discarding the matter while retaining the form. Here Hardy's view can be linked to Darwin's own theories. Natural Selection, as Darwin says, “is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.” The aim of this paper is to highlight how Hardy starts from Darwin's concept of inheritance, to come close to Bergson's statement about the innate “autonomy” of the past which is able constantly to preserve itself, without any special faculty.","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125786311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hardy ReviewPub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1179/193489109X417842
Cristina Ceron
{"title":"Hardy's Poems: Writing Memory to Resist Annihilation","authors":"Cristina Ceron","doi":"10.1179/193489109X417842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/193489109X417842","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Hardy's poetry memory provides a fundamental intermediary locus poeticus where different selves meet, communicate and even collide. Starting from a process of defamiliarization of the language, his poetics re-vision what was partially perceived as reality and move within a poetical limbo between life and death, where the text gives hospitality to the ghosts of the dead, while becoming their hostage. The nostalgic poems are oriented towards an aesthetic but also psychoanalytical solving of absence, by iterating but also repressing loss, whereas the “congestioned” poems portray several Freudian obsessive ghosts who try to defy the flow of time, in order to annihilate the second and final death.","PeriodicalId":409771,"journal":{"name":"The Hardy Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114927984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}