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Representations of culture; Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Victorian Anthropology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Representations of culture; Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Victorian Anthropology.

Zeitler, Michael A.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2007

154 pages

$61.95

Hardcover

PR4757

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set Jude the Obscure and much of his other writings in the semi-imaginary region of Wessex in the south and southwest of England, offering through his writings representations of regional folklore, customs, myth, and ritual. Zeitler (English, Texas Southern U.) examines Hardy's Wessex within the context of the then emerging discipline of ...

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