Representations of culture
Subtitle: Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology
By: Michael A. Zeitler
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780820488141
Subjects: Local history in literature; Manners and customs in literature; Culture in literature; Settings; Country life in literature; Wessex (England); Regionalism in literature; In literature; Knowledge
Other titles: Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Victorian anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Thomas Hardy, Wessex, and the critics; title: The science of culture : anthropology and the creation of Wessex; title: Beginnings : descriptions of local culture; title: Wessex past and present : primitive and modern in The return of the native; title: An experiment in tragic form : anthropological ritual and symbolic representation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles; title: Beyond myth : the presence of the past in Jude the obscure.