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Motion sickness: spectacle and circulation in Thomas Hardy's "On the Western Circuit."
From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19960622
Author:Plotz, John
The circular motion of a carousel is the chief metaphor in Thomas Hardy's short story "On the Western Circuit." The steam-powered merry-go-rounds Hardy tours through the countryside becomes a device showing how a love triangle forms and then flies apart because of mistaken impressions. The story also shows Hardy's distrust of modern innovations.
Dreading the moment when the inexorable stoker, grimly lurking behind
the rococo-work, should decide that this set of riders had had their
pennyworth, and bring the whole concern of steam-engine, horses,
mirrors, trumpets, ...
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