Tabla de Contenidos: “…History's diverse beauties -- The philosophy of the nineteenth century -- Eclecticism and literary modernity -- Alfred Tennyson : the originality of medley -- Charles Kingsley : the Alexandrian age -- Matthew Arnold : the second best life -- Walter Pater and Thomas Hardy : "triumph in mutability"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian novel -- Elizabeth Gaskell's resistance to pre-Raphaelite gendered silence -- Wilkie Collins's reconfigurations of pre-Raphaelite gendered shadows -- George Eliot's pre-Raphaelite gendered imperialism -- Beyond gender boundaries : Edward Burne-Jones and Thomas Hardy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative…”

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…”

“…Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon o Thomas Hardy…”

“…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. …”

“…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. …”

“…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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“…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. …”