A General Drama of Pain: Character and Fate in Hardy's Major Novels

ISBN-13: 9781138507197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 153 str.

Bernard J. Paris

Opis

This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novels--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure--highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Preface, 1 Initial Attraction, 2 “A Confusion of Many Standards”: Conflicting Value Systems in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 3 Tess the Woman, 4 Th e Mayor of Casterbridge, 5 Jude the Obscure : Jude, 6 Jude the Obscure : Jude and Sue, 7 Jude the Obscure : Th e Catastrophe, Conclusion, References , Index

O autorze

Bernard J. Paris