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Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance/ by Jacqueline Dillion.
作者:	Dillion, Jacqueline.
面頁冊數:	VII, 206 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Literature, Modern—19th century. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6
ISBN:	9781137503206

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance
Dillion, Jacqueline.

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance[electronic resource] /by Jacqueline Dillion. - 1st ed. 2016. - VII, 206 p.online resource.

Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Belief: Overlooking, Sympathetic Magic, Hag-riding, and South’s Tree -- 3. Acts of Disapproval: Skimmington Riding -- 4. Acts of Approval: The Portland Custom -- 5. Winter Customs: Bonfire Night and Mumming -- 6. Summer Customs: May Day and Midsummer Divination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Illustrations -- Index.-.

This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom.’ This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.

ISBN: 9781137503206

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253622
Literature, Modern—19th century.

LC Class. No.: PN760.5-769

Dewey Class. No.: 809.034

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