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Thomas Hardy and the Church

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From: The Catholic Historical Review
Date: 19970701
Author:Cevasco, G A

Thomas Hardy and the Church. By Jan Jedrzejewski. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1996. Pp. ix, 243, $49.95.)

G. K. Chesterton once spoke for many when he dubbed Hardy "a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot." Few readers would deny that Hardy was "anthropomorphic out of sheer atheism," that his Victorian agnosticism pervades virtually all that he wrote. Today, unlike those of so many of his contemporaries, his novels are still being read, not only because they are set texts on university reading-lists and examination syllabi, but his characters, plots, ...

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