Hugh Epstein

Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores 'scenic realism' in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph ConradOffers the first book-length study of connections between these two major authors bringing new approaches to bear on often-taught worksProvides an understanding of impressionist styles of writing that is drawn from contemporary empirical scienceTells a progressive chronological story of both authors' use of the senses in their fictionArgues for a distinctive place for Hardy and Conrad in late-Victorian fiction which challenges the narrative of a modernist rupture with Victorian realismSupported by wide reading in nineteenth-century science and letters, and comprehensive knowledge of twentieth century criticism of the two novelistsThis 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 takes them beyond their 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' labels to show how vivid and urgent these novels are for the modern reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474449892
• Artikelnr.: 72430784

Autorenporträt

Dr Hugh Epstein is a retired college lecturer and the current Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society. His most recent publications include Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Critical Introduction and Notes for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, (C.U.P., commissioned and forthcoming), 'Conrad and Nature, 1900-1904', in Conrad and Nature, (Routledge, 2018), and 'A Transmissive Medium: Atmosphere in Hardy's Novels', The Thomas Hardy Journal XXXII (Autumn 2016), 11-28.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Physiology of Sensation and Literary Style
Desperate Remedies and The Rescue
2. Facing Nature
3. The Visible World
i. Fiction and Physics: Appearances in the Light
Far From the Madding Crowd and Lord Jim
ii. Searching Space
A Laodicean and 'The End of the Tether'
4. An Audible World
i. Sonic Imaging
The Return of the Native and 'Heart of Darkness'
ii. The Sound of History
Nostromo
5. Identity and Margin
i. Inspection, Immersion, The Mayor of Casterbridge
ii. Widening Margins
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Nostromo
6. Minding the Senses
Jude the Obscure and Under Western Eyes
Postscript
Bibliography.