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No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.  \nISBN 978-1-349-30961-0 ISBN 978-1-137-30506-0 (eBook)  \nDOI 10. 1057/9781137305060  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2013  \nContents  \nPreface vi  \nAcknowledgements vii  \nList of Abbreviations ix  \nIntroduction – Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self 1  \n1 House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of Being 15  \n2 Desire, Female Amity and Sapphic Space 41  \n3 Sexual Desire and the Lure of the Erotic 71  \n4 Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire 95  \n5 As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire 119  \n6 Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire: The Well-Beloved (1897) 144  \n7 ‘Scanned Across the Dark Space’: Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment 164  \nNotes 192  \nBibliography 215  \nIndex 228  \nPreface  \nThings are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life endures alongside ours, which passes away.  \nRainer Maria Rilke (1903; 2011) Letters to a Young Poet: 6  \nMy only desire’s a desire  \nto be free from desire.  \n‘Desire’s a Desire’, Selima Hill, Gloria: Selected Poems  \n(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 2008: 117)  \nAcknowledgements  \nMuch of this book was written during two periods of research leave from the University of Hull for which I am deeply grateful. A British Academy Overseas Conference Grant and awards from Hull University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research and Staff Development funds enabled me to participate in seminal Hardy conferences in Dorchester, UK, and New Haven, Connecticut. My thanks go to Rosemarie Morgan, Angelique Richardson and Richard Nemesvari for the opportunity to be a part of ‘Hardy at Yale’ 2010 and 2012 . I owe a large debt of gratitude to the Thomas Hardy Society ","cbCaiflKi4zEDNID","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiflKi4zEDNID","pdf",2530819,244,"English","# Preface\n# Acknowledgements\n# List of Abbreviations\n# Introduction – Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self\n# House and Home: Nostalgic Desire and the Locus of Being\n# Desire, Female Amity and Sapphic Space\n# Sexual Desire and the Lure of the Erotic\n# Poor Men and Ladies: Aspirational Desire\n# As You Like It: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Expression of Desire\n# Art, Aesthetics and Masculine Desire: The Well-Beloved (1897)\n# ‘Scanned Across the Dark Space’: Poetry, Desire and Aesthetic Fulfilment\n# Notes\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What central idea guides the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book investigates conceptions of the self through how desire functions in Thomas Hardy’s work, connecting desire to space, gender relations, and aesthetic experience.\"},{\"question\":\"Which aspects of desire are covered in the main chapters?\",\"answer\":\"Chapters address nostalgic desire and being, female amity and sapphic space, erotic lure, aspirational desire, cross-dressing and gendered expression, and links between aesthetics and masculine desire.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect poetry and desire to aesthetics?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter on poetry, desire, and aesthetic fulfilment focuses on how desire and artistic experience inform one another, culminating in reflections on aesthetic fulfilment.\"}]","Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self | PDF",1789987329,376]