Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure

by Richard Franklin

The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious traditions of nineteenth-century Anglicanism: Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Placing those movements in their historical context alongside other Victorian religious traditions, the author explores the development of Hardy's religious beliefs and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789761395
• ISBN13: 9781789761399
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"