Jude the Obscure Introduction by J. Hillis Miller |
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Author:
| Hardy, Thomas |
Introduction by:
| Miller, J. Hillis Miller, J.Hillis |
Series title: | Everyman's Library Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-679-40993-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance. Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that,...
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Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.