Difference between revisions of "The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887)"

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it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
- 5 pastoral solitude contrasted with communal awareness
14 "lifehold" lease on property - perhaps a lower class version of the life interest in property of the wealthy?
70ff Winterbourne's Christmas party - the way class difference is externally set in the yeoman farmer class, Grace had to go away to make itreally apprent
115 the frisson of Grace and Fitzpiers' first encounter
120 Grace is socially beneath Fitzpiers
123 "The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations"
134-5 some pretty freely represented casual sex between Suke and Fitzpiers
142 parental pressure on Grace to accept fitzpiers
149 "retrospective criticism" of Grace's origins if Fitzpiers purchases a practice in another towb
what would a contemporary audience have made of Fitzpiers' irreverent view of marriage? Would they have felt unsettled as Grace does on the next page?

10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
26!"...a soul's specific gravity constantly reasserts itself as less than that of the sea of troubles into which it is thrown." About Melbury - Hamlet "to be" soliloquy, as the note suggests a very specific, labored yoking of literary imagery to scientific language about relative density

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 *142 parental pressure on Grace to accept fitzpiers
 *149 "retrospective criticism" of Grace's origins if Fitzpiers purchases a practice in another towb
+*what would a contemporary audience have made of Fitzpiers' irreverent view of marriage? Would they have felt unsettled as Grace does on the next page?
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