Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower : vers une redéfinition cosmique de l’appartenance
In Two on a Tower (1882), Hardy considers the individual’s possibility of belonging to a much larger group than the social community of men, by confronting his astronomer-protagonist with the frightening boundlessness of the cosmos. The discovery of the sublime universe thus creates a new sense of b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/7887 |
| Summary: | In Two on a Tower (1882), Hardy considers the individual’s possibility of belonging to a much larger group than the social community of men, by confronting his astronomer-protagonist with the frightening boundlessness of the cosmos. The discovery of the sublime universe thus creates a new sense of belonging, one that is cosmic, and takes man out of his Christian anthropocentric paradigm, and into the great Darwinian family of the species. |
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| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |