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Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music
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This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and musicological), which will be of use to all Hardy scholars, and discusses a range of Hardy's major works in relation to musical metaphors - from early fiction The Poor Man and the Lady to later major works Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Road to Norcombe Hill: Hardy's Musical Evolution
- 2 'Silent Workings of the Invisible Hand': Hardy's Metaphysical Evolution
- 3 The Spider's Web: Metaphysics into Music Drama
- 4 The Plucked Harp String: Desire, Courtship Ritual and the Debate Concerning Speech Theory
- 5 A Tale of 'Tragical Possibilities': Music and the Birth of Consciousness in The Return of the Native
- 6 'A Tragedy Appropriate for Its Time': Music and the Story of a 'Man of Character'
- 7 'All Creation Groaning': A Deaf Ear to Music in Jude the Obscure
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index