TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael A. Zeitler
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Representations of Culture
T2  - Thomas Hardy’s Wessex and Victorian Anthropology
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104017
N2  - Representations of Culture places Thomas Hardy’s Wessex – his fictional representation of rural England – within the framework of anthropology, an emergent discipline at the time. Informed by both intellectual biography and close textual readings, this book argues that Hardy’s lifelong interests in folklore, customs, local history, myth, archaeology, and communal narrative history represent the most «modern» (rather than simply traditional) aspect of his thinking – the ways in which anthropological viewpoints associated with Tylor, Lang, and Frazer shaped his understanding and representation of Wessex.
KW  - Hardy, Thomas, Roman, Wessex (Motiv), Volkskultur (Motiv), British Literature, Folklore, Victorian Literature
LA  - English
ER  -