An Ecocritical Reading of Hardy’s The Woodlanders: Supernature and EcoGothic
In The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy builds a kaleidoscopic vision of nature and the environment thanks to shifting modes of representation and the use of multiple generic perspectives, each one of which entails a specific discourse on ecology. Reworking Romantic aesthetics, using the supernatural and th...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_2439 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.2439 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.2439 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/2439 2023-05-18T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gak2 All rights reserved An Ecocritical Reading of Hardy’s The Woodlanders: Supernature and EcoGothic FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Blin-Cordon, Peggy genre littéraire gothique romantisme écologie éco-critique environnement études environnementales éco-gothique contes de fée surnaturel genre ecocriticism green studies ecology Romanticism ecoGothic Gothic fairy tales supernatural In The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy builds a kaleidoscopic vision of nature and the environment thanks to shifting modes of representation and the use of multiple generic perspectives, each one of which entails a specific discourse on ecology. Reworking Romantic aesthetics, using the supernatural and the fantastic forms and ecoGothic or adding a fairy-tale dimension to his novel, helps Hardy unfold a complex, idiosyncratic ecocritical vision which goes beyond the mere use of nature as a backdrop to his novels. In The Woodlanders, Hardy ceaselessly addresses the question of “belonging” or “not belonging”, of consuming nature or being part of it. Through a subtle generic interplay, using well-identified topoi (the woods, the tree, the hut) and turning them into supernatural images, Hardy asserts in his 1887 novel that the human and the non-human cannot be considered as distinct. Dans The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy construit une vision kaléidoscopique de la nature et de l’environnement en variant les modes de représentation et en adoptant des perspectives génériques multiples, chacune d’entre elles se faisant le relais d’un discours bien spécifique sur l’écologie. En remaniant l’esthétique romantique, en ayant recours au surnaturel, au fantastique, à l’éco-gothique, ou bien encore en ajoutant les accents d’un conte de fée à son roman, Hardy parvient à déployer une vision écocritique complexe et unique qui dépasse le simple usage de la nature comme toile de fond de ses œuvres. Dans The Woodlanders, Hardy aborde inlassablement la question de l’« appartenance » ou la « non-appartenance », du fait d’exploiter la nature ou d’en faire pleinement partie. Par le biais d’une interaction subtile entre les genres littéraires, par la transformation de topoi bien définis (les bois, l’arbre, la cabane) en images surnaturelles, Hardy affirme dans son roman de 1887 qu’on ne saurait considérer l’humain et le non-humain comme des entités distinctes. |
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In The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy builds a kaleidoscopic vision of nature and the environment thanks to shifting modes of representation and the use of multiple generic perspectives, each one of which entails a specific discourse on ecology. Reworking Romantic aesthetics, using the supernatural and the fantastic forms and ecoGothic or adding a fairy-tale dimension to his novel, helps Hardy unfold a complex, idiosyncratic ecocritical vision which goes beyond the mere use of nature as a backdrop to his novels. In The Woodlanders, Hardy ceaselessly addresses the question of “belonging” or “not belonging”, of consuming nature or being part of it. Through a subtle generic interplay, using well-identified topoi (the woods, the tree, the hut) and turning them into supernatural images, Hardy asserts in his 1887 novel that the human and the non-human cannot be considered as distinct. |
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An Ecocritical Reading of Hardy’s The Woodlanders: Supernature and EcoGothic |
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