Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

AvHugh Epstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This 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 re-frames their 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' labels to show how vivid and urgent these novels are for the modern reader.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:484 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474449878

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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.

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Hardy, Conrad and the Senses raises the bar for anyone writing about either of these two authors; for anyone writing about both, it will be the touchstone of quality for some time.

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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