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Thomas Hardy's The Dorsetshire Labourer and Wessex.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Thomas Hardy's The Dorsetshire Labourer and Wessex.

Lowman, Roger.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2005

260 pages

$109.95

Hardcover

PR4757

Lowman (cultural studies, University College, Winchester, retired) offers a counterview to the widely accepted belief that Hardy was a well-informed, concerned and materially accurate commentator on the social and economic conditions of rural labor in his novels and in The Dorsetshire Labourer, his contribution to the "rural question." Lowman highlights Hardy's sentimentality, paternalism and conservatism ...

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