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Patriarchy and its discontents : sexual politics in selected novels and stories of Thomas Hardy / Joanna Devereux

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Devereux, Joanna, 1962-
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New York : Routledge, 2003.
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xxi, 166 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Ch. 1. The view from the tower: an indiscretion in the life of an heiress and a pair of blue eyes -- ch. 2. "Woman's prescriptive infirmity": Far from the madding crowd as patriarchal comedy --ch. 3. The failure of male vision in the hand of Ethelberta and a Laodicean -- ch. 4. "Antagonistic words": the mayor of Casterbridge as patriarchal tragedy -- ch. 5. Patriarchal tragicomedy: self-denial and masculine heroism in The Woodlanders -- ch. 6. Male words and women writers: "An imaginative woman,""On the western circuit," and "The fiddler of the reels" -- ch. 7. Internalizing the ideology: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the obscure.
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0415941415 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-159) and index.
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