Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads

Name: Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
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ISBN: 9781135519872

ISBN-10: 1135519870

ISBN-13: 9781135519872

Edition: N/A

Authors: Scott Rode

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This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure - and by mapping the road travels of his protagonists, this book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities. Balancing modern exigencies with mythic possibilities, Hardy's fictive roads exist as contested spaces that channel desire for middle-class assimilation even as they…

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Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 144