Reading Hardy's Landscapes

Irwin, Michael

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“…8 This is also the novel in which Hardy, according to at least one twenty-first century critic, 'found' his 'method'. 9 During the composition of this novel the young Hardy broke from his sixteen-year career as an architect's assistant, a career whose prospects had been significantly hampered by condescension toward his 'provincial' status as the son of a Dorset stonemason, and became a metropolitan 'man of letters'. The second writer, Time closed up like a fan before him.…”

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Buckland¹

2008

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Victorian geology was 'a ubiquitous and emblematic science', and it was characterised perhaps more than any other Victorian science by its vibrant material culture. 1 Though literary criticism has almost exclusively focused on nineteenth-century geology's production of 'narratives' of the history of the earth (in the shape of 'progression', 'uniformitarianism', 'catastrophism' and 'evolution', for example), in fact historians of science have demonstrated that the 'central business' of the science for its elite practitioners was not the formulation of laws of change or causation, but stratigraphy, the determination of the order and structure of the layers of rocks and fossils beneath the earth's surface. 2 This project was rooted in the material objects of the science, often guided by the need to accurately predict the locations of lucrative coal-bearing and other mineral-rich sections of the strata. Furthermore, not only did the Geological Survey (f. 1835) direct important attention and resources to the practices of surveying and mapping, but in the early-to-mid-nineteenth-century the science was also integrally associated with palaeontology, and with the building of museums, collections, and exhibitions. It was in its focus on the material structure of the earth, rather than on its story, that geologists most radically reconfigured the Victorians' apprehension of their position within time and space.Given the intimate interrelationship between the history of evolutionary thought and the history of geology, it is perhaps unsurprising that literary critics have often considered geology using tools of analysis largely drawn from such influential studies of evolutionary biology and the novel as Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots (1983) and George Levine's Darwin and the Novelists (1988). Beer and Levine's considerations of the ways in which literary narratives may have reflected, or drawn upon, or extended, or disconfirmed the shapes and structures of the world described by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species (1859), while appropriate to the study of evolutionary science, occludes many of the key differences between geology and evolutionary biology in this period. While Levine, Beer, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan Smith, and a host of other critics focus on the narratives of earth history geology may have contributed to

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Buckland¹

2008

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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“…A survey conducted in February 1999 found that not only had resistance to North-South bodies among Protestants diminished, but also that a majority of Protestants considered them to be important. 50 The business community, possibly motivated by the relative success of the campaign, was more ready to talk about peace. In a survey Business communities in peace processes 337 conducted by the Financial Times in December 1993, the majority of businesspeople interviewed (anonymously) expressed a firm belief that the province would enjoy an economic boost and supported political concessions.…”

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Between power and hegemony; business communities in peace processes

Ben‐Porat¹

2005

Rev. Int. Stud.

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The support that businessmen and business organisations displayed for the peace processes in Israel and Northern Ireland was open and vocal, underscoring the supposed linkage between globalisation, peace and economic growth, and the supposed leadership role of business. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations of the business communities in Israel and Northern Ireland in becoming involved in the peace processes, their organisation to promote peace, decision-making processes at critical junctures, and their actual impact on the political outcomes. Study of the business communities demonstrates that their empowerment enabled them to exert political influence but fell short of hegemony that would enable them to set the wider political agenda. The impact of both business communities, for different reasons, was therefore limited.

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The Darkening Pastoral:Under the Greenwood TreeandFar From the Madding Crowd

Regan

2009

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Reading Hardy's Landscapes

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Between power and hegemony; business communities in peace processes

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