Representations of culture [electronic resource] : Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology / Michael A. Zeitler.
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- Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Victorian anthropology
- 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
- 823/.8 22
- PR4757.S46 Z45 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-143) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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