The Hermeneutics of Compassion: The Case of Fanny Robin
Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd failed to satisfy his commissioning editor Leslie Stephen’s expectations of a pastoral novel along the lines of Under the Greenwood Tree but was, instead, subjected to rigorous censorship prior to publication in the Cornhill. This essay examines just part of...
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2016
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| Summary: | Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd failed to satisfy his commissioning editor Leslie Stephen’s expectations of a pastoral novel along the lines of Under the Greenwood Tree but was, instead, subjected to rigorous censorship prior to publication in the Cornhill. This essay examines just part of Hardy’s creative methodology, his attempts to subvert his own text in keeping with his anti-establishment views, some 20 years before achieving sufficient freedom from the codes and practices of censorship to be able to express them openly in Tess. The focus of this essay is confined to Hardy’s treatment of Fanny Robin and the subtextual devices he employs in his efforts to arouse the reader’s compassion for the Fallen Woman. |
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