Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of LoveUniversity of Missouri Press, 1997 - 222 pàgines Emphasizing the vast changes in literary criticism that have occurred during the last thirty years, H. M. Daleski reexamines Thomas Hardy's novels in the novelist's own terms, presenting a revisionary account of his treatment of gender. He also shows that Hardy was not as sexist as is asserted in much feminist criticism and that his female characters are sympathetically portrayed as the centers of his fictional worlds. By carefully analyzing the novels, Daleski refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his powers, claiming that he drove himself to a dead end in Jude the Obscure. The typical Hardy plot places a female protagonist in a love triangle with two male protagonists who are portrayed as polar opposites. The woman contradicting a general view of her as victim is always granted the freedom of choice of a marriage partner. She invariably makes the wrong choice, which leads to a bad marriage and disastrous sexual relationships. As this scenario is played out in most of Hardy's novels, the men are presented as distinct types, the types being depicted with rich diversity and with steadily greater psychological depth. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity. In his intuitions about sexual relations, Daleski maintains Hardy was not outdone by writers such as Lawrence and Joyce. Daleski studies Hardy within his Victorian context, but he also shows that Hardy, both in his depiction of sexuality and in his technical innovations, was in advance of his time. In these respects Hardy deserves to be regarded as a forerunner of the great modernists. In Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love, Daleski offers acute and thoughtful analyses of Hardy's major novels. Avoiding critical jargon, the author has made his book accessible to all readers with an interest in Hardy and his novels, as well as in the study of gender in English literature. |
Continguts
NOTE ON THE TEXT S XV | 1 |
Figures in the Carpet | 13 |
The Displacement of Love | 36 |
The Only Love | 56 |
Erratic Histories | 83 |
The Same Stuff | 105 |
Sorrow and Sickness | 129 |
Green Malt in Floor | 180 |
Figures in the Carpet 13 | 13 |
The Displacement of Love 36 | 36 |
The Only Love 56 | 56 |
Erratic Histories 83 | 83 |
The Same Stuff 105 | 105 |
Sorrow and Sickness | 129 |
Green Malt in Floor | 151 |
The Defective Real 180 | 180 |
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