| 书目名称 | Thomas Hardy and History | | 编辑 | Fred Reid | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/925/924973/924973.mp4 | | 概述 | Written by an historian this takes a different tack from other books approaching this subject.Argues that Hardy’s understanding of history was shaped both by his early exposure to the Liberal Anglican | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book addresses the questions ‘What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?‘ Scholars have sought answers in ‘revolutionary‘, ‘gender‘, ‘postcolonial‘ and ‘millennial‘ criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own ‘meliorist‘ philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own ‘experiments in living‘.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Novel; Historiography; Mayor of Casterbridge; Jude the Obscure; Under the Greenwood Tree | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54175-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85339-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-54175-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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