Reading and Mapping Hardy''s Roads

Name: Reading and Mapping Hardy''s Roads
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415762908
Price: 11150 KES
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ISBN: 9780415762908

by Scott Rode

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in Major Literary Authors

ISBN-10 0415762901

ISBN-13 9780415762908

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 11th, 2014

Print length 144 Pages

Weight 226 grams

Product Classification: Literary studies: general

KSh 11,150.00

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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 provide the means both to reinforce and to resist conformity to hegemonic authority.

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