Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower : vers une redéfinition cosmique de l’appartenance

In Two on a Tower (1882), Hardy considers the individual’s possibility of belonging to a much larger group than the social community of men, by confronting his astronomer-protagonist with the frightening boundlessness of the cosmos. The discovery of the sublime universe thus creates a new sense of b...

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Xuất bản năm:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve,
Tác giả chính: Estanove, Laurence
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Français
Được phát hành: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2021
Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt:In Two on a Tower (1882), Hardy considers the individual’s possibility of belonging to a much larger group than the social community of men, by confronting his astronomer-protagonist with the frightening boundlessness of the cosmos. The discovery of the sublime universe thus creates a new sense of belonging, one that is cosmic, and takes man out of his Christian anthropocentric paradigm, and into the great Darwinian family of the species.