The opening paragraphs of the short story The Fiddler of the Reels contrast past and present, Wessex and modernity, tradition and progress, revealing Hardy's view of science. His position is ambivalent, as the geological and temporal faultline may be seen as severing, but also connecting, two different kinds of world. As both link and division (« an extraordinary chronological frontier or transit-line »), the faultline is a trope for nostalgia as much as progress. Hardy was clearly attracted to the major scientific texts of his time, and Darwin's emblematic Origin of Species had a considerable influence over Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, but there is no denying that scientific discourse is revisioned by the writer's art. T...
Recent scholarship has begun to tear down the distinction between Darwinism and social Darwinism by ...
Hardy's novels draw on his knowledge of rural life in the nineteenth century; the effects of the agr...
Thomas Hardy wrote during a time of great social, moral, and technological change. Often his novels...
International audienceThe opening paragraphs of the short story The Fiddler of the Reels contrast pa...
Thomas Hardy was deeply influenced by the science of his day, including the theory of evolution, and...
Thomas Hardy viewed novel writing as an extension of oral tale-telling and wrote more by instinct th...
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Hardy considered Romanticism essential to human natur...
Abstract Thomas Hardy is one of the prominent novelists and poets of the late Victorian era, was bo...
The influence of Darwinism and evolutionism on Hardy’s work needs no further demonstration. Yet when...
A great, deal has been written about Thanas Hardy"s philosophy and interpretation of life. Lionel Jo...
Bernard McKennaReaders of Thomas Hardy are often disturbed by his unrelentingly bleak worldview. Thi...
Gillian Beer has shown that the Darwinian plot radically changed the way the world was perceived, he...
This study of the influence of Charles Darwin on Thomas Hardy\u27s tragic novels centers on two key ...
In discussions of English fiction, Hardy and Conrad are only occasionally considered together, and g...
During the prosperous Victorian age, when Thomas Hardy was active writing novels and poems, most Bri...
Recent scholarship has begun to tear down the distinction between Darwinism and social Darwinism by ...
Hardy's novels draw on his knowledge of rural life in the nineteenth century; the effects of the agr...
Thomas Hardy wrote during a time of great social, moral, and technological change. Often his novels...
International audienceThe opening paragraphs of the short story The Fiddler of the Reels contrast pa...
Thomas Hardy was deeply influenced by the science of his day, including the theory of evolution, and...
Thomas Hardy viewed novel writing as an extension of oral tale-telling and wrote more by instinct th...
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Hardy considered Romanticism essential to human natur...
Abstract Thomas Hardy is one of the prominent novelists and poets of the late Victorian era, was bo...
The influence of Darwinism and evolutionism on Hardy’s work needs no further demonstration. Yet when...
A great, deal has been written about Thanas Hardy"s philosophy and interpretation of life. Lionel Jo...
Bernard McKennaReaders of Thomas Hardy are often disturbed by his unrelentingly bleak worldview. Thi...
Gillian Beer has shown that the Darwinian plot radically changed the way the world was perceived, he...
This study of the influence of Charles Darwin on Thomas Hardy\u27s tragic novels centers on two key ...
In discussions of English fiction, Hardy and Conrad are only occasionally considered together, and g...
During the prosperous Victorian age, when Thomas Hardy was active writing novels and poems, most Bri...
Recent scholarship has begun to tear down the distinction between Darwinism and social Darwinism by ...
Hardy's novels draw on his knowledge of rural life in the nineteenth century; the effects of the agr...
Thomas Hardy wrote during a time of great social, moral, and technological change. Often his novels...