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portada Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure
Type
Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9781789761399
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Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure

Richard Franklin (Author) · Liverpool University Press · Hardcover

Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure - Franklin, Richard

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Synopsis "Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure"

The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious traditions of nineteenth-century Anglicanism: Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Placing those movements in their historical context alongside other Victorian religious traditions, the author explores the development of Hardy's religious beliefs and ideas up till the 1880s. Evangelicalism in Tess is discussed through an analysis of the principal characters, Angel Clare and his father, Parson Clare, Alec d'Urberville and Tess herself, leading to a consideration of why this form of Christianity looms so large in that novel. Not unexpectedly, the reasons for this are linked to Hardy's personal and intellectual biography, especially his religious upbringing and experience of and involvement in these religious traditions. This applies to both novels. The sources of Jude the Obscure in Hardy's life and thought, and their links to Anglo-Catholicism, are revealed in the context of the influence of that tradition on the narrative and characters, in particular Jude's sense of vocation, the importance of the university town of Christminster and issues associated with marriage, divorce and sexuality. Throughout his analysis of both novels the author demonstrates how Hardy lambasts the way in which these religious traditions and the conventional Victorian morality they bolstered undermine human flourishing. Thomas Hardy and Religion concludes by considering the place these two novels have in the continuing trajectory of Hardy's theological ideas, underlining the critical importance of understanding his religious concerns and reflecting on the way in which his critique of religion is important to people of faith.

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