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Representations of culture Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology /

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Main Author: Zeitler, Michael A., 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2007.
Subjects:
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Settings.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Knowledge > Wessex (England)
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928. > Wessex novels.
Culture in literature.
Local history in literature.
Manners and customs in literature.
Country life in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Wessex (England) > In literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Thomas Hardy, Wessex, and the critics
  • The science of culture : anthropology and the creation of Wessex
  • Beginnings : descriptions of local culture
  • Wessex past and present : primitive and modern in The return of the native
  • An experiment in tragic form : anthropological ritual and symbolic representation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Beyond myth : the presence of the past in Jude the obscure.

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