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13) Thomas Hardy
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Contains plot summaries and character lists for five works by Thomas Hardy," including "Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Return of the Native," "The Mayor of Casterbridge," "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," and "Jude the Obscure," each with a selection of critical essays; and includes biographical information about the author.
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"This study examines the fraught relationship Hardy had with his readers. He resented their bourgeois values and beliefs, in particular their hypocritical form of Christianity, with its repression of the body. Initially content to compromise, to provide them with congenial entertainment, Hardy resorted at first to 'back-door' strategies of subversion, smuggling obscene and blasphemous material past his editors, and finally to outspoken attack." "Professor...
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