TY - BOOK AU - Zeitler,Michael A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Representations of culture: Thomas Hardy's Wessex & Victorian anthropology AV - PR4757.S46 Z45 2007eb U1 - 823/.8 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - P. Lang KW - Hardy, Thomas, KW - Culture in literature KW - Local history in literature KW - Manners and customs in literature KW - Country life in literature KW - Regionalism in literature KW - Wessex (England) KW - In literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-143) and index; Introduction: Thomas Hardy, Wessex, and the critics -- The science of culture : anthropology and the creation of Wessex -- Beginnings : descriptions of local culture -- Wessex past and present : primitive and modern in The return of the native -- An experiment in tragic form : anthropological ritual and symbolic representation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Beyond myth : the presence of the past in Jude the obscure; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10531735 ER -