Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions write by Trish Ferguson. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre's engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.
Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions
Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions write by Trish Ferguson. This book was released on 2008. Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction write by Sophie Gilmartin. This book was released on 2016. Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thomas Hardy and the Law
Thomas Hardy and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hardy and the Law write by William A. Davis. This book was released on 2003. Thomas Hardy and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout his fiction, Hardy offers a representation of life - particularly female life - as an evolving legal spectacle, one in which the law enables yet also interferes with human plans in the earlier fiction and eventually "prescribes" human life in the later works."--BOOK JACKET.
Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance
Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance write by Jacqueline Dillion. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.
