Representations of culture : Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology /
Zeitler, Michael A.,1938-
New York ; Oxford : Peter Lang,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-143) and index.
Introduction: Thomas Hardy, Wessex, and the critics -- The science of culture : anthropology and the creation of Wessex -- Beginnings : descriptions of local culture -- Wessex past and present : primitive and modern in The return of the native -- An experiment in tragic form : anthropological ritual and symbolic representation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Beyond myth : the presence of the past in Jude the obscure.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Culture in literature.
Local history in literature.
Manners and customs in literature.
Country life in literature.
Regionalism in literature.