Female sexuality, marriage and divorce in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, with special reference to the period 1887-1896

The thesis sets out to examine Hardy's representations of women in sexual and marital relationships, and to relate those representations to contemporary developments in sexual ideology and in fiction. An Introduction considers the way in which ideology exerts pressure upon literary form, and di...

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Main Author: Boumelha, Penny
Published: University of Oxford 1981
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238503