HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3021 4/8/03 "ARCHITETURE IN HARDY'S NOVELS"
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From: "Saretta Tillmaand" <hideandseek349@hotmail.com>
Subject: Architecture in Hardy's Novels
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:11:23 -0500


Hello Everyone,

I am looking for architectural influence in Hardy's novels, such as vivid destription of buildings and scenes or attention to detail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou,

Saretta Tillmaand

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:39:51 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@mailhost.sju.edu>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Architecture in Hardy's Novels

Dear Saretta,

Just off of the top of my head, look at Jude the Obscure and A Pair of Blue Eyes. In the former,
scenes of Christminster are especially architecturally interesting, and in the latter, the protagonist
is an architect. Oh and there's also a bit in The Woodlanders.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Shannon

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:23:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Architecture in Hardy's Novels
From: "Philip & Andrea Allingham" <apalling@tbaytel.net>

We have already had *Jude* and *A Pair of Blue Eyes* alluded to--I recommend you examine Hardy's highly specific architectural descriptions in *The Mayor of Casterbridge* (e.g., the facade of High Place Hall) and at his examination of the issue of Gothic restoration (Victorian Gothic Revival) versus classical facade in *A Laodicean*, the protagonist of which is a young architect. This is a potentially very interesting topic.

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:43:11 -0300
From: mary rimmer <mrimmer@unb.ca>
Subject: Re: Architecture in Hardy's Novels


_A Laodicean_ is the novel that deals most directly with architecture,
though there are parts of _Jude_, _A Pair of Blue Eyes_, _Far from the
Madding Crowd_ (esp. the Great Barn scene), _The Woodlanders_, and
_Desperate Remedies_ that relate to architecture as a profession and to
buildings. See also Hardy's early essay, "How I Built Myself a House."

Mary Rimmer

Mary Rimmer
Dept. of English
University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3
(506) 458-7393 FAX (506) 453-5069

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From: "schweik" <schweik@fredonia.edu>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Architecture in Hardy's Novels
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 12:36:05 GMT


>To add to Shannon's advice, I'd suggest you look
the *Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy* under the
heading "Architecture."

Bob Schweik


Robert Schweik
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:07:17 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Architecture in Hardy's Novels


Hi-- I would add the "Great Barn" in FFMC (XXI in my MS edition). Hardy
composed this as a set-piece (a virtuoso piece) before he'd actually written
the chapter in which it might feature. Some important aspects of his
architectural, cultural and ethical interests reveal themselves in this short
segment.

Good Luck Saretta,

Cheers,
Rosemarie

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From: "Michael Barry" <michaelj.barry@talk21.com>
Subject: Re: Architecture in Hardy's Novels
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:27:58 +0100


There is also a fascinating short story "Fellow-Townsmen" in which the
building of "Chateau Ringdale", a domestic house, is an ongoing part of the
action.
M Barry

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:43:29 +0100 (BST)
From: gary.alderson@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: Architecture in Hardy's Novels

And of course "Fellow-Townsmen" contains Hardy's joke on his own restoration of Bridport church

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