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Thomas Hardy And Religion

by Richard Franklin

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious traditions of nineteenth-century Anglicanism: Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Placing those movements in their historical context alongside other Victorian religious traditions, the author explores the development of Hardy's religious beliefs and ideas up till the 1880s. Evangelicalism in Tess is discussed through an analysis of the principal characters, Angel Clare and his father, Parson Clare, Alec d'Urberville and Tess herself, leading to a consideration of why this form of Christianity looms so large in that novel. Not unexpectedly, the reasons for this are linked to Hardy's personal and intellectual biography, especially his religious upbringing and experience of and involvement in these religious traditions. This applies to both novels. The 'sources' of Jude the Obscure in Hardy's life and thought, and their links to Anglo-Catholicism, are revealed in the context of the influence of that tradition on the narrative and characters, in particular Jude's sense of vocation, the
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  • Author

    Richard Franklin

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Sussex Academic Press

  • Published

    June 2021

  • Weight

    410g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781789761399

  • ISBN-10

    1789761395

  • Eden Code

    5573731

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