Thomas Hardy And Empire

Author : Jane L. Bownas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010450
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Empire written by Jane L. Bownas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire and in spite of the many allusions to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic Wars in his writing. Jane L. Bownas examines the context of these references, proposing that Hardy was a writer who not only posed a challenge to the whole of established society, but one whose writings bring into question the very notion of empire. Bownas argues that Hardy takes up ideas of the primitive and civilized that were central to Western thought in the nineteenth century, contesting this opposition and highlighting the effect outsiders have on so-called 'primitive' communities. In her discussion of the oppressions of imperialism, she analyzes the debate surrounding the use of gender as an articulated category, together with race and class, and shows how, in exposing the power structures operating within Britain, Hardy produces a critique of all forms of ideological oppression.

Author : Fred Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319541757
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy and History written by Fred Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.EA/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pair of Blue Eyes written by Thomas Hardy and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-22T17:47:46Z with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Elfride falls in love for the first time with an architect who is sent to make plans to renovate the local church. She supposes Stephen to be a professional man from London, but finds he comes from more humble origins. Stephen must go away and make something of himself before he can claim her. Circumstances change in his absence, and Elfride must decide if she will keep her pledge to marry Stephen. A Pair of Blue Eyes is Thomas Hardy’s third novel, and the first one to bear his real name when it was first published. The novel was first published as a serial, and the “cliffhanger” is supposed to have been named after a scene in which a character is left hanging over the edge of a cliff—while readers are left waiting for the next chapter to be serialized. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196485
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy in Context written by Phillip Mallett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynasts written by Thomas Hardy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dynasts" is an incredible drama written in verse based on war stories of the veterans of the Napoleonic wars. It is a closet drama as it was impossible to perform on stage due to its elaborate battle scenes. The play contains actual events and figures, making it historically significant.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy ... written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The works of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse. Wessex ed. Verse written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380491
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Poisoned Well written by Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years after Britain and France left the Middle East, the toxic legacies of their rule continue to fester. To make sense of today’s conflicts and crises, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. Roger Hardy unearths an imperial history stretching from North Africa to southern Arabia that sowed the seeds of future conflict and poisoned relations between the Middle East and the West. Drawing on a rich cast of eye-witnesses — ranging from nationalists and colonial administrators to soldiers, spies, and courtesans — The Poisoned Well brings to life the making of the modern Middle East, highlighting the great dramas of decolonisation such as the end of the Palestine mandate, the Suez crisis, the Algerian war of independence, and the retreat from Aden. Concise and beautifully written, The Poisoned Well offers a thought-provoking and insightful story of the colonial legacy in the Middle East.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynasts By Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynasts is an English-language closet drama in verse and prose by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes". Not counting the Forescene and the Afterscene, the exact total number of scenes is 131. The verse is primarily iambic pentameter, occasionally tetrameter, and often with rhymes. The three parts were published in 1904, 1906 and 1908. Because of the ambition and scale of the work, Hardy acknowledged that The Dynasts was not a work that could be conventionally staged in the theatre, and described the work as "the longest English drama in existence". Scholars have noted that Hardy remembered war stories of the veterans of the Napoleonic wars in his youth, and used them as partial inspiration for writing The Dynasts many years later in his own old age. In addition, Hardy was a distant relative of Captain Thomas Hardy, who had served with Admiral Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar. Hardy consulted a number of histories and also visited Waterloo, Belgium, as part of his research. George Orwell wrote that Hardy had "set free his genius" by writing this drama and thought its main appeal was "in the grandiose and rather evil vision of armies marching and counter-marching through the mists, and men dying by hundreds of thousands in the Russian snows, and all for absolutely nothing."