Thomas Hardy and Desire

Conceptions of the Self
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-22463-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Hardy and Desire House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of the Self Desire, Female Amity and 'Sapphic Space' Sexual Desire and the Lure' of the Erotic Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire 'Scanned Across the Dark Space':Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JANE THOMAS is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK, and has published widely on Thomas Hardy, Victorian Literature, art and sculpture and contemporary women writers. Her publications include and editions of and Hardy's shorter fiction.