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Thomas Hardy's metaphysics and music.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Thomas Hardy's metaphysics and music.

Asquith, Mark.

Palgrave Macmillan

2005

234 pages

$74.95

Hardcover

PR4757

Hardy's pastoral settings and reflections of popular sentiments of his time would seem to ban him from metaphysics, if not music. In fact he was concerned his work would be taken as strictly rural and so conducted readings for the intelligentsia and the otherwise interested in which he explained his themes and tropes in terms of the intellectual hot buttons of the day, including evolution, predestination, mesmerism, ...

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