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THE MIND  \nTHOMAS HARDY:  \nLANDSCAPES OF THEMIND  \nAndrew Enstice  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publicatton may be reproduced,copiedor transmitted save with written permission or in accordancewith the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956(as amended).  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst edition 1976  \nReprinted 1986  \nPublished byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand LondonCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataEnstice,AndrewThomas Hardy  \n1.Hardy,Thomas,b.1840—Homesand haunts—England-Wessex823.8PR4754  \nISBN 978-1-349-16089-1(eBook)  \nISBN 978-1-349-16091-4  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-16089-1  \nZoo whether 'tis the humpy groundThat wer a battle viel',  \nOr mossy house,all ivy-bound,An’vallen down piece-meal;Or if'tis but a scraggy tree,Where beauty smil'd o'wold,o,How dearly I do like to zeeThe pleace a tale's a-twold o'.  \n(William Barnes)  \nContents  \nList of Maps  \nIntroduction  \nI.Townscape:The Mayor of Casterbridge  \n2.The village community:Under the Greenwood Tree  \n3.The farming community:Far from the Madding Crowd  \n4.The landscapes of \"The Great Heath’:The Return of theNative  \ns.Transition:The Woodlanders  \n6.Wessex vignettes:Tess of the d'Urbervilles  \n7.Landscapes of the mind:Jude the Obscure  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \nIndex  \nix  \nI  \n37  \n48  \n68  \n90  \nIII  \nI53  \nI81  \nI92  \nI99  \nList of Maps  \nStinsford-the area of the first five novelsxivDorchester and its environs-The Mayor of Casterbridge7Dorchester and Fordington-The Mayor of CasterbridgeI3Stinsford-Under the Greenwood Tree  \n4IThe Piddle valley-Far from the Madding Crowd54Heathlands from Dorchester to Poole-The Return of the Native 70Puddletown Heath-The Return of the Native73High Stoy-The Woodlanders9IMelbury Sampford-The Woodlanders94Tess of the d'UrbervillesI17Jude the ObscureI55  \n# Introduction\n\nIt has been my intention in this book to analyse the relationshipbetween 19th-century southern England and its literary image inHardy's Wessex.I have traced the changing perception of hislandscapes through the major novels,and tried to discover what heachieves by the changes in his own attitude to basically similarsettings.  \nHardy's perception of Wessex demanded its geographical visualis-ation,and therefore its identification with southern England.Yet theemphasis on actual place varies from novel to novel,from scene toscene.Casterbridge is closely identifiable with Dorchester,Tess'sMarlott completely unidentifiable except for its location on a Wessexmap.  \nThe maps and close descriptions give a firm base for thecommunities of the novels,but they tend also to confine the majorcharacters,and this becomes apparent as Hardy moves from closedescription towards the more general.Tess becomes scenic andcharacterised and Jude personalised and variable where similargeographical settings previously only varied (except in detail)fromnovel to novel.  \nOf course,as in the pastoral Farfrom the Madding Crowd or elegiacWoodlanders,the settings are also literary in a more general sense.But Ihave traced the development from particular towards flexible land-scapes,and looked at the characters as elements of their settings.Thefirst five novels are grouped as enclosed landscapes and,takentogether,they show clearly Hardy's dependence on his Wessexhomeland,and indicate the strongly regional nature of his earlierwork.Of course The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of theNative,as their titles suggest,centre quite strongly on individuals.It is,however,only in Tess and Jude that the individual clearly emerges asindependent of the community,and therefore as the focus oflandscape,rather than a part 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