Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
by
Scott Rode
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors
ISBN-10
0415978386
ISBN-13
9780415978385
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 23rd, 2006
Print length
154 Pages
Weight
440 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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Examines Hardy's representations of the road and how the archaeological and historical record inform his work. This book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities, existing as contested spaces that channel desire for middle-class assimilation.
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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