| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 146 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in major literary authors
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Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index. |
| Contents |
Orientation in a disoriented Victorian world -- Figuring the map in the Return of the native -- Sexual identity on the road in Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Nomadism and the road not taken in Jude the Obscure. |
| Summary |
This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels -- The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure - and by mapping the road travels of his protagonists, this book argues that the road as represented by Hardy provides a palimpsest that critiques the Victorian construction of social and sexual identities. Balancing modern exigencies with mythic possibilities, Hardy's fictive. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Return of the native.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Jude the obscure.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhMk9RXtXrcGQQKKgrwmd |
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Jude the obscure (Hardy, Thomas) |
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Return of the native (Hardy, Thomas) |
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy, Thomas) |
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Roads in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Roads in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rode, Scott. Reading and mapping Hardy's roads. New York : Routledge, ©2006 9780415978385 (DLC) 2006007108 (OCoLC)64453438 |
| ISBN |
9780203960356 (electronic bk.) |
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0203960351 (electronic bk.) |
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9781135519803 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1135519803 |
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9781135519872 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1135519870 |
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9781135519940 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1135519943 |
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0415978386 (alk. paper) |
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9780415978385 |
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9780415762908 (paperback) |
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1281136115 |
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9781281136114 |
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9786611136116 |
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6611136118 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780203960356 |
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