Jane Thomas 
Thomas Hardy and Desire [PDF ebook] 
Conceptions of the Self

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy’s work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art’s potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject.

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Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Hardy and Desire House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of the Self Desire, Female Amity and 'Sapphic Space’ Sexual Desire and the Lure’ of the Erotic Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire 'Scanned Across the Dark Space’:Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment Notes Bibliography Index

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JANE THOMAS is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK, and has published widely on Thomas Hardy, Victorian Literature, art and sculpture and contemporary women writers. Her publications include
Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the 'Minor’ Novels and editions of
The Well-Beloved and Hardy’s shorter fiction.