Rereading The Image Of Woman In Jude The Obscure Of Thomas Hardy

2021 ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Mohammed Feze'a Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Jude The Obscure

The Telegraphic Principle in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-52
Author(s):  
David Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
System P ◽  
Blue Eyes ◽  
Jude The Obscure

This chapter concerns the attitudes, practices, and figures of speech that during the course of the nineteenth century prepared the way for the eventual separation of the idea of the signal from that of the sign. It has to do with the emergence of the telegraphic principle (initially by means of the Napoleonic-era optical telegraph) as a thrillingly effective implementation of remote intimacy. Its main focus is on the intimacies developed remotely, by signal rather than sign, in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and in novels by Thomas Hardy: in particular, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Return of the Native, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and The Well-Beloved. In Hardy’s fiction, sexual desire expresses itself in, or as, an adjustment of signal-to-noise ratio. The Wessex the novels map is at times less a terrain than the basis for a telecommunications system.

scholarly journals ‘The return of the native by Thomas Hardy: Eustacia Vye or the bovarysme embodied in Wessex”

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (53) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Goater
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Jude The Obscure ◽  
Shed Light

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of the great English novelists of the late Victorian era. Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure are among his most famous novels. If he was not directly influenced by Gustave Flaubert’s aesthetics, Hardy was very much inspired by the heroine of Madame Bovary. Indeed, quite a few of Hardy’s female characters, whether in his novels or in his short stories, suffer with varying degrees from “bovarysme’, the disease of imagination and affectivity which is one of Emma Bovary’s central features. This paper aims to shed light on the posterity of Flaubert’s character through Eustacia Vye, the heroine of The Return of the Native, to show to what extent she represents not a pale imitation but an original variation on an essential model of Western literature. 

Food as the Representation of Idyllic Landscape of Victorian World in the Novels by Thomas Hardy

CLEaR ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Agata Buda
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Careful Preparation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jude The Obscure

Abstract The aim of the paper is to analyse the idea of cooking/eating in two novels by Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure and Tess d’Urbervilles. Both works present the idea of food as one of the major points of reference in human relationships. One of the aspects worth analysing is eating as one of the most crucial primary needs. Another one is family eating. The meetings are preceded by careful preparation of meals (e.g. Sunday preparations in Arabella’s house or cooking in the house of the Crick family). The food often becomes the major topic during these meetings, showing in this way the idyllic character of family eating: the looks of dining rooms and kitchens are essential as well as the possibility of talking to each other while eating. This idyllic space of collective eating (according to M. Bakhtin) can be frequently destroyed by social conventions; when Tess was rejected by society, she used to eat alone and did not take care of what she eats. Both novels explore the idea of food making it important for the creation of an idyll.

scholarly journals On the Theme of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Guorong Lu ◽  
Zhehui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Jude The Obscure ◽  
Harsh Reality ◽  
Shed Light

Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure got the most attention of the critical world in the nineteenth century of Britain. The theme was always regarded as the embodiment of original sin, pessimism and voluntarism. However, when the theme is analyzed again, it will be found something totally different. Hence, three-phase patterns are to be singled out for a case study in order to shed light upon some facts and conclusions. The first stage is the expression of optimism from the perspective of symbolism; the second stage is the representation of conflict between character and environment in light of Darwinism; the third stage is the exploration of rationality from the viewpoints of religion and feminism. What can be learned is that the story is meant to show readers the kindness tendency, the courage to face the harsh reality and a sense of rationality.

scholarly journals Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-359
Author(s):  
Sara Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Biological Model ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Jude The Obscure ◽  
Victorian Psychology

This article reads Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders (1887) and Jude the Obscure (1895) as ambivalent responses to the new conception of human intelligence that emerged from Victorian psychology and evolutionary theory and which formed the basis of what I describe as the Victorian biopolitics of intelligence. Although these novels reflect Hardy's endorsement of the new biological model of intelligence, they also register his resistance to what many late Victorians assumed to be its corollary: that mental worth can be an object of scientific measurement, classification, and ranking. I suggest that the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière illuminates the extent to which these novels challenge the scientific reification of intellectual inequality and attempt to vindicate overlooked and stigmatized forms of intelligence.

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