‘Deeds of Darkness’
Thomas Hardy and Murder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Minna Vuohelainen (0000-0002-9369-8190, City, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 66 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h7030066 |
| OpenAlex | W2810619677 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy’s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on Hardy’s Wessex settings, visual imagination and equation of sight with knowledge. Yet Hardy’s writings frequently disturb realist generic conventions by introducing elements from popular nineteenth-century genres, particularly sensation fiction and the Gothic. This essay considers how murder as a plot device troubles generic boundaries in the novels Desperate Remedies (1871), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). Set against backgrounds with significant non-realist elements, these texts view murder and its punishment from limited, distorted or averted perspectives that articulate a significant social and cultural critique
Art · Literature · Sight · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · History · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Thomas Hardy Literature Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |