HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9918 3/11/99 "JUDE, GENDER AND WOMEN" ==================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 06:56:42 -0800 (PST) From: jennifer b Subject: Re: Jude, Gender & Woman hello, i was recently added onto the list-serve. i am a grad student in english lit. at georgetown university and have been working on a presentation on _jude the obscure_ and gender. i feel as if i've exhausted my sources, yet still have considerable work to do. can anyone point me toward some useful sources? much appreciated, jennifer. jennifer b. jen_b@yahoo.com ========== Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:51:43 -0800 From: Betty John Cortus Subject: Re: jude, gender, women Dear Jennifer, If you haven't already looked at Penny Boumelha's _Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative form_, (U of wisconsinsin P, 1982), and Rosemarie Morgan's _Women and Sexuality in the Novels of TH_ (Routledge, 1988) I think you will find they both contain chapters pertinent to your subject. Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:42:54 -0800 (PST) From: jennifer b Subject: Re: jude, gender, women thank you very much betty! jennifer b. jen_b@yahoo.com ========== Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 01:03:55 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Thomas Hardy >Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:57:33 -0500 >To: JMagr97560@aol.com >From: Rosemarie Morgan >Subject: Re: Thomas Hardy > >Dear Jennifer, > I will post your queries on The Thomas Hardy Association (TTHA) Forum which should allow them maximum exposure to other interested scholars. I am afraid I cannot respond personally to your highly interesting points at this time, but do please pursue them via the TTHA Forum, to which you can subscribe by going to the Hardy Association Front Page at: > > http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc > >or more directly to: > > http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/Forum/forum.htm > >Good luck! > Cheers > Rosemarie Morgan > > > > >07:43 PM 3/11/99 EST, you wrote: >>Dear Dr. Morgan: >> >>I read your book on Gender and Sexuality in Thomas Hardy's Novels, and I also >>saw your website. I am writing my thesis with the intent of showing how Hardy >>stereotypes Sue and Jude in Jude the Obscure as being anti-Victorian in >>character; in other words, I want to show how all that they do goes AGAINST >>typical Victorian society, including the gendered role reversals in Sue and >>Jude with Sue being the "New Woman." >> >>My professor suggested I first position Hardy in light of the critics' views >>and show WHY Hardy would deliberately write such a novel to go against that >>which his present-day society would accept. >> >>The problem I am having is trying to establish the reasoning that Hardy wrote >>the novel and deliberately made Sue and Jude outcasts as a way to show his >>"vision" as a novelist in the modern day, turn-of-the-century; on the other >>hand, I also feel Hardy was pessimistic and almost remorseful about the past >>and wanted to "hold on to it" in almost a Romantic notion. There is SO much >>on BOTH of these views; is there any specific direction or critic you suggest >>I read? >> >>Thank you for your time, >>Jennifer >>(JMagr97560@aol.com) >> ==========