Thomas Hardy and his God : a liturgy of unbelief
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Thomas Hardy and his God : a liturgy of unbelief
Macmillan, 1990
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Bibliography: p. 172-185
Includes index
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Description
Through a study of his verse and fiction the author attempts to present Hardy's seemingly conflicting views about the nature of God and His relationship with man. Also included is an assimilation of the philosophical influences on Hardy's writing, including Schopenhauer and Comte. Hardy emerges in the text as a figure at once postmodern in his conviction that life is a darkling landscape and Carlylean in his emphasis on "loving-kindness" as the requisite temper of human relations.
Table of Contents
- The complaining door
- nature, Darwin, and the pattern in the carpet
- the "Great Adjustment" - evolutionary meliorism in "The Dynasts"
- freedom, failure, and fate - reading the web of Wessex
- fascination and forgiveness
- he resolves to say no more.
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