Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

ISBN-13: 9781474449878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Hugh (Dr Hugh Epstein is a retired college lecturer and the

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This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. With a focus on nature and the environment, Hugh Epstein analyses thirteen of these powerful works in the historical company of contemporary discussions in Victorian science. He re-frames their 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' labels to show how vivid and urgent these novels are for the modern reader.

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Introduction; 1. The Physiology of Sensation and Literary Style; Desperate Remedies and The Rescue; 2. Facing Nature; 3. The Visible World; i. Fiction and Physics: Appearances in the Light; Far From the Madding Crowd and Lord Jim; ii. Searching Space; A Laodicean and ‘The End of the Tether’; 4. An Audible World; i. Sonic Imaging; The Return of the Native and ‘Heart of Darkness’; ii. The Sound of History; Nostromo; 5. Identity and Margin; i. Inspection, Immersion, The Mayor of Casterbridge; ii. Widening Margins; Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Nostromo; 6. Minding the Senses; Jude the Obscure and Under Western Eyes; Postscript; Bibliography.