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Thomas Hardy[electronic resource] :folklore and resistance /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
[NT 15000414]:	823.8
Title/Author:	Thomas Hardy : folklore and resistance // by Jacqueline Dillion.
Author:	Dillion, Jacqueline.
Published:	London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
Description:	vii, 206 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Folklore - England
Subject:	Literature.
Subject:	Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Subject:	British and Irish Literature.
Subject:	Fiction.
Subject:	Literary History.
Subject:	Dorset (England) - Fiction.
ISBN:	9781137503206
ISBN:	9781137503190
[NT 15000228]:	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.
[NT 15000229]:	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.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6

Thomas Hardy[electronic resource] :folklore and resistance /
Dillion, Jacqueline.

Thomas Hardyfolklore and resistance /[electronic resource] :by Jacqueline Dillion. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - vii, 206 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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--Personal Names:

373284
Hardy, Thomas,
1840-1928--KnowledgeSubjects--Topical Terms:

671200
Folklore
--EnglandSubjects--Geographical Terms:

423921
Dorset (England)
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR4757.F64 / D55 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 823.8

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