Thomas Hardy[electronic resource] :f...
Dillion, Jacqueline.

 

  • Thomas Hardy[electronic resource] :folklore and resistance /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823.8
    書名/作者: Thomas Hardy : folklore and resistance // by Jacqueline Dillion.
    作者: Dillion, Jacqueline.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: vii, 206 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Folklore - England
    標題: Literature.
    標題: Nineteenth-Century Literature.
    標題: British and Irish Literature.
    標題: Fiction.
    標題: Literary History.
    標題: Dorset (England) - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9781137503206
    ISBN: 9781137503190
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50320-6
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