Title Patriarchy and its discontents : sexual politics in selected novels and stories of Thomas Hardy / Joanna Devereux.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR4757.M44 D48 2003	Available	---

Description	xxi, 166 pages ; 24 cm.
	Men language
Series	Studies in major literary authors ; v. 17
	Studies in major literary authors ; v. 17.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-159) and index.
Contents	Ch. 1. The view from the tower: an indiscretion in the life of an heiress and a pair of blue eyes -- ch. 2. "Woman's prescriptive infirmity": Far from the madding crowd as patriarchal comedy --ch. 3. The failure of male vision in the hand of Ethelberta and a Laodicean -- ch. 4. "Antagonistic words": the mayor of Casterbridge as patriarchal tragedy -- ch. 5. Patriarchal tragicomedy: self-denial and masculine heroism in The Woodlanders -- ch. 6. Male words and women writers: "An imaginative woman, ""On the western circuit," and "The fiddler of the reels" -- ch. 7. Internalizing the ideology: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the obscure.
Subject	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Characters -- Men.
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
	Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Man-woman relationships in literature.
	Man-woman relationships in literature.
	Patriarchy in literature.
	Patriarchy in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Men in literature.
	Men in literature.
	Sex role.
	Sex role.
	Gender roles.
ISBN	0415941415 acid-free paper