Thomas Hardy's novel universe
Subtitle: astronomy, cosmology, and gender in the post-Darwinian world
By: Pamela Gossin
Series: The nineteenth century
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780754603368
Subjects: Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Astronomy; Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Cosmology; Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation; Astronomy in literature; Cosmology in literature; Literature and science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index
Table of contents: title: "Convergence of the twain" : a personal perspective on the interdisciplinary study of literature and science; title: Literary history of astronomy and the origins of Hardy's literary cosmology; title: The other "terrible muse" : astronomy and cosmology from prehistory through the Victorian period; title: Hardy's personal construct cosmology : astronomy and literature converge; title: Celestial selection and the cosmic environment : A pair of blue eyes, Far from the madding crowd, and The return of the native; title: The stellar dynamics of star-crossed love in Two on a tower; title: Universal laws and cosmic forces : the tragic astronomical muse in The woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the obscure; title: Moral astrophysics : myth cosmos, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and beyond