Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

✍ Scribed by Mark Asquith (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-17
The Road to Norcombe Hill: Hardy’s Musical Evolution....Pages 18-31
‘Silent Workings of the Invisible Hand’: Hardy’s Metaphysical Evolution....Pages 32-46
The Spider’s Web: Metaphysics into Music Drama....Pages 47-77
The Plucked Harp String: Desire, Courtship Ritual and the Debate Concerning Speech Theory....Pages 78-103
A Tale of ‘Tragical Possibilities’: Music and the Birth of Consciousness in The Return of the Native ....Pages 104-122
‘A Tragedy Appropriate for Its Time’: Music and the Story of a ‘Man of Character’....Pages 123-146
‘All Creation Groaning’: A Deaf Ear to Music in Jude the Obscure ....Pages 147-164
Conclusion....Pages 165-168
Back Matter....Pages 169-234

✦ Subjects

British and Irish Literature; Music; Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Metaphysics