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Article: Hardy, Shaftesbury, and aesthetic education.(essay)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- September 22, 2006
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The boy sighed. "I don't like Christminster!" he said. "Are the great
old houses gaols?"
"No; colleges," said Jude.
--Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1894-95) (1)
When he looks at the colleges of Christminster, Little Father Time, the boy in Hardy's exchange, sees prisons. When his father Jude looks at the city, by contrast, he sees a work of art. Glimpsing Christminster in the distance, Jude discerns a "gorgeous city," in harmony with his "painter's imagination." (2) On his first visit there, he wanders through the streets late at night touching the stone walls, quoting from poems, and speaking to the city "like an actor in a melodrama who apostrophizes ...
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