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THOMAS HARDY AND HISTORY - FRED REID GEBUNDEN

This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this
enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary'  'gender' 
'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism  but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid
is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical
history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out 
from the late 1850s  his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his
fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican
historians  it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte 
George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with
the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.

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