Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary material / CONFIGURING MASCULINITY / CONCEPTS OF MASCULINITY AND MASCULINITY STUDIES / MASCULINITIES: THE FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE / ON READING MEN, LAW AND GENDER: LEGAL REGULATION AND THE NEW POLITICS OF MASCULINITY / MASCULINITY IN THOMAS MALORY’S MORTE DARTHUR / FROM ANTISOCIAL TO PROSOCIAL MANHOOD: SHAKESPEARE’S RESCRIPTING OF MASCULINITY IN AS YOU LIKE IT / SENTIMENTAL MASCULINITY: HENRY MACKENZIE’S THE MAN OF FEELING (1771) / “JOSEPH THE DREAMER OF DREAMS”: JUDE FAWLEY’S CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN THOMAS HARDY’S JUDE THE OBSCURE / FROM ANGRY YOUNG SCHOLARSHIP BOY TO MALE ROLE MODEL: THE RISE OF THE WORKING-CLASS HERO / “FILIARCHY” AND MASCULINITY IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF IAN MCEWAN / “WHAT IS A MAN?”…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Physiological Acoustics and Feminist Politics -- Chapter Three: Cross-Dressing Violinists and Music/Gender Performance in The Heavenly Twins and The Violin-Player -- "The Difference That Dress Makes": Contingent Virtuosity in The Heavenly Twins -- "A Real Genius": Triumphant Musicality in The Violin-Player -- "Without Regard to Sex" -- Part Three: Sexualities -- Chapter Four: Dangerous Vibrations: Musical Rape in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy -- "In Spite of Her Resistance": The Mill on the Floss -- "Excruciating Spasms": Desperate Remedies and "The Fiddler of the Reels"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kreisel -- Mapping the "invisible region, far away" in Dombey and Son / Adam Grener -- How we might live : utopian ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler / Benjamin Morgan -- From specimen to system : botanical scale and the environmental sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas / Lynn Voskuil -- "Infinitesimal lives" : Thomas Hardy's scale effects / Aaron Rosenberg -- Electric dialectics : Delany's Atlantic materialism / Monique Allewaert -- Satire's ecology / Teresa Shewry -- Afterword : "they would have ended by burning their own Globe" / Karen Pinkus…”

“…The life and times of Oxford are exalted or derided by writers ranging from the antiquarian Anthony Wood to Evelyn Waugh, Dr Johnson and Mr Gladstone, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas Hardy. Unworldly scholars and eccentric dons walk the pages, accompanied by the great characters of Oxford such as Benjamin Jowett, Sir Maurice Bowra, and William Spooner." …”

“…The texts, inspired in his daily experiences in the city ofSantiago and the writings of classic philosophers and authors (Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio,Ernst Jünger, Plato, Homer, Thomas Hardy, Spinoza, Victor Hugo amongst others)discover key aspects of his thinking and work. …”

“…The title essay is a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost, and the book also includes a fond appreciation of Thomas Hardy, a "Letter to Horace", a close reading of Rilke's poem "Orpheus. …”

“…Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon o Thomas Hardy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ego takes over (I) : enter the dark inversion -- The ego takes over (II) : the dark and sentimental versions -- The ego takes over (III) : quest, voyage and return, comedy -- The ego takes over (IV) : tragedy and rebirth -- Losing the plot : Thomas Hardy, a case history -- Going nowhere : the passive ego : the twentieth-century dead end, from Chekhov to Close encounters -- Why sex and violence? …”

“…Beckett. roman policier), des œuvres lyriques (Thomas Hardy. Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon) ou des ligures d'artistes comme Derek Jarman et Jeff Koons, se fait jour une ligne de partage, ou ligne de faille, entre l’objet lyrique et la chose inhumaine, l'objet comme extension du moi et la chose comme remise en cause du sujet. …”

“…While classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition of the distance between self and other. …”
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“…Through sensitive attention to classic novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy, as well as to the elegies of Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung reveals what nineteenth-century writers know about what happens when we read. …”

“…Tras un fugaz intento de incorporarse a la vida universitaria, gracias al cual conoció a escritores d ela talla de T. E. Lawrence o Thomas Hardy, se dedicó con más pena que gloria al comercio y a formar una familia hasta 1929. …”

“…The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. …”