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Article: Reading hodge: preserving rural epistemologies in Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Ward Hellstrom. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Thomas Hardy's novels often evoke associations with literacy, as readers remember his ornate phraseology, replete with Latinate diction and classical allusion, or his characters who so often seem to battle for an education that might sustain them in a dark, unfeeling world. Indeed, anyone who has suffered through the beautiful but chilling Jude the Obscure knows that Hardy had serious reservations about conventional education, but most often his ostensible concern may appear to be one of access, not a question of the quality of traditional education itself. However, Hardy's primary trepidation about conventional education and literacy was not an apprehension that they ...