‘Deeds of Darkness’: Thomas Hardy and Murder

Autor:	Vuohelainen, M.
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Literature framing architecture History business.industry Thomas Hardy realism murder lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities PR Gothic Sight genre sensation fiction spatiality lcsh:AZ20-999 Architecture business Cultural critique Realism
Zdroj:	Humanities, Vol 7, Iss 3, p 66 (2018) Humanities Volume 7 Issue 3
ISSN:	2076-0787
DOI:	10.3390/h7030066
Popis:	Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy&rsquo s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on Hardy&rsquo s Wessex settings, visual imagination and equation of sight with knowledge. Yet Hardy&rsquo s writings frequently disturb realist generic conventions by introducing elements from popular nineteenth-century genres, particularly sensation fiction and the Gothic. This essay considers how murder as a plot device troubles generic boundaries in the novels Desperate Remedies (1871), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Tess of the d&rsquo Urbervilles (1891). Set against backgrounds with significant non-realist elements, these texts view murder and its punishment from limited, distorted or averted perspectives that articulate a significant social and cultural critique.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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