Hardy, Conrad and the Senses

Epstein, Hugh

Edinburgh University Press（2021/08発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474449878
• DDC分類 823.9120911

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction

1. The Physiology of Sensation and Literary Style: Desperate Remedies and The Rescue

2. Facing Nature

3. 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: Nostromo

5. Identity and MarginInspection, Immersion: The Mayor of CasterbridgeWidening Margins: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Nostromo

6. Minding the SensesJude the Obscure and Under Western Eyes

PostscriptBibliographyIndex