Hardy's Wessex, according to T.R.Wright, is a world dominated by desire which anticipates not only Freud, Hardy's contemporary, but such radical modern thinkers as Barthes, Foucault and Lacan, whose ideas are summarized in the opening chapters.

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The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

T. R. Wright

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Book Title: Hardy and the Erotic
Authors: T. R. Wright
Series Title: Macmillan Hardy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09019-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09019-8Published: 18 June 1989
Series ISSN: 2947-1699
Series E-ISSN: 2947-1702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 150
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Wessexuality: A Theoretical Introduction

Hardy on Himself: The Life and the Loves

Obscure Objects of Desire: The Early Novels

Women as Subjects: Romances and Fantasies

A Question of Manliness: Henchard and Fitzpiers

Diabolical Dames and Grotesque Desires: The Short Stories

Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman?

Sue Bridehead: A New Woman

The Well-Beloved: The End of Art and Desire

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