Thomas Hardy and Desire [electronic resource] : Conceptions of the Self /
Thomas, Jane.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction - Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self; 1 House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of Being; 2 Desire, Female Amity and Sapphic Space; 3 Sexual Desire and the Lure of the Erotic; 4 Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire; 5 As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire; 6 Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire: The Well-Beloved (1897); 7 'Scanned Across the Dark Space': Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Sociology.
Literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature—History and criticism.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.