Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvHugh Epstein,Retired) Epstein, Hugh (Dr Hugh Epstein is a retired college lecturer and the current Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society.

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Explores ‘scenic realism’ in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph ConradOffers the first book-length study of connections between these two major authors bringing new approaches to bear on often-taught worksProvides an understanding of impressionist styles of writing that is drawn from contemporary empirical scienceTells a progressive chronological story of both authors’ use of the senses in their fictionArgues for a distinctive place for Hardy and Conrad in late-Victorian fiction which challenges the narrative of a modernist rupture with Victorian realismSupported by wide reading in nineteenth-century science and letters, and comprehensive knowledge of twentieth century criticism of the two novelistsThis book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. With a focus on nature and the environment, Hugh Epstein analyses thirteen of these powerful works in the historical company of contemporary discussions in Victorian science. He takes them beyond their ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modernist’ labels to show how vivid and urgent these novels are for the modern reader.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-19
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt616 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474449861

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Dr Hugh Epstein is a retired college lecturer and the current Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society. His most recent publications include Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Critical Introduction and Notes for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, (C.U.P., commissioned and forthcoming), ‘Conrad and Nature, 1900-1904’, in Conrad and Nature, (Routledge, 2018), and ‘A Transmissive Medium: Atmosphere in Hardy’s Novels’, The Thomas Hardy Journal XXXII (Autumn 2016), 11-28.

Introduction1. The Physiology of Sensation and Literary Style: Desperate Remedies and The Rescue2. Facing Nature3. The Visible WorldFiction and Physics: Appearances in the Light – Far From the Madding Crowd and Lord JimSearching Space: A Laodicean and ‘The End of the Tether’4. An Audible WorldSonic Imaging: The Return of the Native and ‘Heart of Darkness’The Sound of History: Nostromo5. Identity and MarginInspection, Immersion: The Mayor of CasterbridgeWidening Margins: Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Nostromo6. Minding the SensesJude the Obscure and Under Western EyesPostscriptBibliographyIndex